Xander, born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the eighth grandchild for his mother’s parents. And he’s not the only one in his family with an unusual birthday: His 2-year-old brother, Kael, was born on 4/5/06.
Lindsey Hauer thought staff at Lake Region Hospital in Minnesota were joking when they told her the time of her daughter’s birth. And then she got a call from the birthing suite noting Hailey’s weight.
Nurse Jenny Harstad joked that she tried to shrink the baby to 18 inches from her actual 19.5 inches.Several hospital staff members in Minnesota pledged to buy lottery tickets. And Chad Riniker, Xander’s father, said that eight hadn’t been his lucky number before, but that now he was thinking about buying a lottery ticket.
“I just might,” he said. “If nothing else, with four children I should probably play the lottery.”
FERGUS FALLS IS BUT A HOP SKIP AND A JUMP FROM WHERE I WAS RAISED AND MOST OF YOUR PAPA MARVINS RELATIVES LIVE OR HAVE LIVED THERE. I SAY CHAD BUY THE TICKET.
ReplyDeletei knew you would love those stories! you are so over the top on your love of the number 8 - why didn't you have eight kids?!?!? hope your job was good today!
ReplyDeletei just heard that and thought of you, and look you already posted about it!
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Isn't it something how that stuff happens. My first daughters birth was sort of that way. She was born on 10/12 at 10:12 and was the 1,012 preterm baby to be born in the hospital that year. She was born at Ruby Memorial also know as West Virginia University Hospital. We did not play the lottery but my brother used the numbers in a fake lottery thing for a radio station that was there (maybe for a football game or something) and won a t-shirt lol.
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