Move over, New Year’s babies: Mount Nittany Medical Center welcomes rare Leap Day baby
Mount Nittany Medical Center welcomed a rare Leap Day baby, or “leapling,” on Thursday.
Phinley Lu was born to parents Fu-An Lu and Po-Jen Shih, weighing in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce, and measuring 20 inches long. His mother said she’s happy to have all her family sharing birthdays within several months of each other.
“It is a very special honor that Phinley was born on Leap Day,” Lu said in a press release from Mount Nittany Health. “I let the baby decide whether he wanted to be born in February or March. It is unique because now each member of our immediate family has a birthday during one of the first four months of the year.”
Feb. 29 is the rarest birthday with only around five million people, or 0.07% of the world’s population, being born on Leap Day, which occurs once every four years.
Each year, the Joseph V. and Suzanne P. Paterno Women and Children’s Services unit at Mount Nittany Medical Center delivers more than 1,200 babies. For more information on the unit, visit mountnittany.org/maternity.
