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Chad and Melissa
Croff, from Columbus Michigan, welcomed Evelyn Joy into the
world at 3:06 a.m., the Henry Ford Health System said in a
statement. She arrived 10 days after her due date.
Weighing in at 6 pounds, 9 ounces, the little girl shares a
birthday with older sister Eliana Adaya, who was born Feb. 29,
2012, the last time there was a leap year, the hospital system
said.
"It's a little surreal," Melissa Croff told Reuters in an
interview. "It's kind of winning the lottery; the baby lottery."
She added that labor was not induced. Neither drugs nor a
Caesarian section delivery method were used.
Currently, the couple celebrates Eliana's birthday on the
closest Saturday relatives can agree on, Croff said. In the
future, the girls will pick a celebration day during non-leap
years.
The serendipitous timing doesn't happen often. Guinness World
Records lists five siblings born on the same day in the United
States, Feb. 20, from 1952 to 1966, according to the hospital
system.
(Reporting by Justin Madden in Chicago; Editing by Ben Klayman
and Alan Crosby)
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