What happens if your born feb 29th

On her 28th birthday, the heavily pregnant mum-to-be came downstairs after her husband Paul had gone to work.

I only get a birthday every four years so I was grumpy, overdue and stewing all day. I said, 'Did you forget something, Paul? It's my leap year birthday. Paul can't forget our birthday now he's got two of us. Elizabeth says Ivy is having a birthday party for the first time this year. When asked about her plans, Ivy says with a soon-to-be-four-year-old's simple conviction: "I play, I eat and then I have my birthday cake.

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Ivy Ingram loves being a "leapling". Leap year day on February 29 occurs nearly every four years. However, leap day babies, leaplings, leapers, or leapsters still get to celebrate their birthday in common years.

Some celebrate on February 28, some prefer March 1. However, many countries have laws defining which date a person born on February 29 comes of age in legal terms. For instance in New Zealand, the official birthday falls on February 28 in common years; in other countries like the United Kingdom, leap year babies have to wait until March 1.

So what happens if you are born on a leap day? A Leap year is a year where an intercalary or extra day is added to the end of February. A leap year has days instead of and occurs every four years.

For the earth to complete its orbit around the sun, it takes about Eventually, this extra time would knock the Gregorian calendar out of sync with the seasons, therefore, shifting the seasons by about 24 calendar days within a century.

If this continued for some centuries, Christmas would fall in the middle of summer for the Northern Hemisphere. People born on a lead day are called leaplings, and are sometimes referred to as leapers, leapters or leap day babies. Countries like New Zealand and the United Kingdom have laws specifically for those born on a leap day.