You can’t control when a child is born. Or can you?
This week, thousands of pregnant women are doing whatever it takes to score a designer birthday for their son or daughter-to-be. The anxious moms want to give birth on 11/11/11, and many are clamoring for their doctors to perform C-sections on them this Friday in order for their newborn to hold claim to a date that rolls around once every 100 years.
Many moms-to-be like the idea of being in control of when their child will enter the world. Hence, the increasing number of C-sections performed in the United States each year. In the case of 11/11/11 C-sections, the majority of pregnant women say they want to capitalize on the luck associated with the paradigm and the fact that their child’s birthday will be hard to forget.
Still, there’s something to be said about allowing fate to run it course.
One look at the following birth stories and you’ll see that timing is indeed everything, and there are some things you simply can’t plan for.
Take for example, the Berendes of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Their third child was born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 2009 at 9:09 a.m. To keep the nine streak alive, the Berendes’ baby boy weighed in at 9 pounds, 9 ounces.
So how do you top that?
Ask the Miller family from Arkansas.
Andy and Alison Miller welcomed their new bundle of joy on 9/9/09, but it wasn’t the first time they family experienced a run on identical digits.
The couple’s first child, Campbell, was born on 8/8/08.
But the numerical coincidences don’t stop there. The Miller’s say Campbell, weighed 8 pounds when she was born and has eight letters in her name. In addition, Molly Reid, born 9/9/09, has nine letters in her name. And finally, although Molly weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz., at birth, if you separate the numbers and add them up, it equals nine.
Another mother, who knows all about special dates, is TaMara Sheppard of Tacoma, Washington.
She gave birth to her daughter at 9:11 p.m. on 9/11. Add to that the fact that Sheppard is a 911 dispatcher.
Unfortunately, the baby did not weigh 9 pounds, 11 ounces at birth.
Still, it’s pretty freaky.
Sheppard said she wasn’t thinking about numbers when she was giving birth.
“It never even crossed my mind until my husband said, ‘You’re a 911 dispatcher and you had a baby on 9/11 at 9:11,'” she told local news reporters.
Do you know any pregnant women due to give birth on 11/11/11?
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