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It’s not your Leap Year birthday

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LeapYrBaby · 28/02/2022 09:14

Why are you celebrating today? You were born the day after February 28th!
So either 29th February or 1st March.

OP posts:
ImprobablePuffin · 28/02/2022 12:39

OP you celebrate your birthday whenever you want to. Pay no mind to anyone else's opinion.

Happy birthday to you for whenever you to choose it to be this year Grin

Here's to another day of piss free cornflakes, hurrah!

Legoisthebest · 28/02/2022 12:48

Happy (almost) Birthday OP whatever day you celebrate Cake

Zilla1 · 28/02/2022 12:51

I like the idea of a two-day birthday and owning the celebration.

Yourinmyspot · 28/02/2022 12:52

Our DD was born on 1st March in a leap year, she was an elective c section and when they were booking me in they said ‘we can’t possibly do it on 29th February it wouldn’t be fair to her’. I wouldn’t have minded either way.

BendingSpoons · 28/02/2022 12:54

To me, 29th Feb is 'the last day of February' so I would celebrate on 28th. DD was born 1st March in a leap year. I don't tell her that her birthday wasn't the day after 28th Feb so she can't celebrate yet.

But I can understand others feel differently and don't want to celebrate early. Happy Birthday for tomorrow!

Gilly12345 · 28/02/2022 13:20

You have too much time on your hands.

BashfulClam · 28/02/2022 13:39

Your birthday isn’t the 28th but it’s not the 1st either. It was the last day of February, I was born in 1979 and went to school with a few leap year babies born in 1980 (in Scotland so they must let the parents choose whether to send them at 4 years old). Almost all celebrated their birthday on 28th and it was the last day of February.

FelicityPike · 28/02/2022 14:28

[quote BertieBotts]@thewhatsit
@FelicityPike

I have the same question! Why did her parents get given a choice? By who?[/quote]
The registrar I imagine.
She’s in her 70’s and we don’t talk to her any more.

Linnet · 28/02/2022 14:34

My friends nephew is a leap year baby, they celebrate his birthday on March 1st. This also meant that when he started school he was one of the oldest in the class, we’re in Scotland where the age cut off for startling school is the end of February.

1984Winston · 28/02/2022 14:48

My guinea pigs were leap year babies, we celebrate on the 28th, it's the same month then

Brac · 28/02/2022 15:03

We got married on a leap day. I think we should celebrate on the 28th, DH thinks 1st March. And I just realised I haven’t got a card for him… 😬😬😬

BertieBotts · 28/02/2022 15:15

But why would the registrar ask them to choose if there was a February 29 that year? Confused

Original poster
LeapYrBaby · 28/02/2022 15:23

@Gilly12345

You have too much time on your hands.
@Gilly12345 hang on, are you my boss? Damn I better get back to work.
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Legoisthebest · 28/02/2022 15:59

Gilly she was born on an extra day so having extra time must be in her blood Grin

CowboyJo · 28/02/2022 19:33

Not a leap year baby but I'd personally pretend you don't have a birthday and wait until 2024 - makes the birthday even more special Wink

CowboyJo · 28/02/2022 19:35

If any of my children were leap year babies, they'd get a card on the 28th of February, but no presents or cake or big celebration. They could have a small non-birthday party any time during the year if they so wished.

Abraxan · 28/02/2022 19:47

My uncle has a leap year birthday. He always celebrates at the end of February. Makes more sense to him (and presumably my grandma and his siblings many years ago when he was born) to keep it in February.

He was born the day after 28 February.
He was born the day before 1 March.
He was born on the last day of February.

And does it even matter anyway?

Abraxan · 28/02/2022 19:51

@FelicityPike

My MIL is a leap day birthday. When she was born her parents were given the choice of 28 feb or March 1st. They chose the 28th, but when it’s a leap year she celebrates on the 29th. Last leap year we held her 18th birthday party 😁
Who gave the parents the choice and why isn't her birthday 'registered' in the 29th February?

My uncle is late 60s and his registered birthday is 29 February.

I have a much older ancestor I've found on my family tree and their birthday is also registered as 29 February. So leap year birthdays weren't routinely given a different date for records.

JamDodger · 28/02/2022 20:03

Happy birthdays!! You choose whichever day you like. Keeps it very fresh unlike for the rest of us boring non-leapies.

TroysMammy · 28/02/2022 20:10

I was in school with someone whose birthday is the 29th but celebrated it on 1st March, St David's Day as we would have a concert in the morning and the afternoon off.

Grinling · 28/02/2022 20:30

@CowboyJo

If any of my children were leap year babies, they'd get a card on the 28th of February, but no presents or cake or big celebration. They could have a small non-birthday party any time during the year if they so wished.
Why?
BitsAndBaubles · 28/02/2022 20:33

My daughter is a leap year baby, we don't have a set day this year will celebrate it on the 2nd.it depends on the day of the week

MintyFreshBreath · 28/02/2022 20:35

My cousin was a leap year baby and always celebrated on the 28th Feb. Logic being that at least it was still in February 😂

Moonface88 · 28/02/2022 20:37

But if you're a leapling you're not an entire year older until the 1st March? So it makes far more sense than celebrating on February 28th.

Stef92 · 28/02/2022 20:46

My brother celebrates today because he was born on the last day of Feb, not the first day of March. He was able to buy a pint of the 28th Feb despite being born on the 29th.🤷🏼‍♀️

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