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Kasoa: Two hospitals record 9 Leap Day Babies

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Celebrating birthdays are important in the lives of many people. It’s a special day spent with friends and families.

It’s even rare enough to be born on leap day because children born this day will have to wait four years to celebrate their birthdays since February 29, comes once every four years.

GBCGHANAONLINE’s Michael Nabary visited some hospitals at Kasoa and reports that there were normal deliveries for 2020 Leap Day babies.

A senior midwifery officer, Emelia Tetteh, at the Nglesihie Amanfro Polyclinic at Amanfro in an interview said: “4 babies were delivered on February 29, 2020. They were made up of two males and two females.”

“There were no casualties. Everything was normal,’’ she disclosed.

Also at the Wesley Clinic and Maternity Home, Miss Josephine Cromwell, Principal Midwifery Officer, revealed, “5 babies were delivered on that day.”

“They were made up of 2 males and 3 females.”

According to her, deliveries were normal.

“They are special and their mothers won’t forget their date of birth since they were born in a leap year.”

History

The leap day is an extra day added every four years to the calendar to synchronise it with the solar year.

Every four years in the Gregorian calendar, an extra day is added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the solar year.

Leap years are needed to keep our modern day Gregorian calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun.

It takes the Earth approximately 365.242189 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds – to circle once around the Sun.

However, the Gregorian calendar has only 365 days in a year, so if a leap day is not added on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours off our calendar every year. After only 100 years, our calendar would be short of about 24 days!

Origin

Roman general Julius Caesar introduced the first leap years over 2000 years ago.

Story filed by Michael Nabary.

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