Welcome to the world, Kaleia. That was quite an entrance you made on April 15 this year. A real one in a million shot.
You weren’t due until April 26th, but when your mom’s water broke at 1 p.m. on the 14th and she went into labor on her way to the hospital, the odds went out the window.
You were about to join a very exclusive club. Your grandma Jackie Gamez was born on April 15, 1966, and your mom Annie Urrutia was born on April 15, 1998.
And, here you came along after a hard day’s night of labor at 10 a.m. on April 15, 2024 to join their birthday party. Three generations born on the same day. No C-sections or induced labor. All natural childbirths.
“I said to my daughter back in August when she told me she was pregnant that the baby would be born on the 15th,” Jackie said. “Annie said, ‘no way, mom. That would be just too crazy.’
“After her water broke on the 14th and she began to have labor pains as we rushed her to the hospital, I prayed she would make it past midnight before having the baby. My prayers were answered.”
Her prayers might have been answered, but what about her daughter’s prayers as the contractions began to come faster and faster with more pain with each push.
Her prayers were having a healthy baby and getting you out as fast as she could, Kaleia. Somewhere around 12:01 a.m. on the 15th would have been nice.
“Did you know the Titanic sank on the 15th?” Jackie asked me. “Our birthday is a historic day.”
Yes, it is. It’s also the deadline for paying Uncle Sam his due.
The day President Abraham Lincoln died, after being shot on April 14 at Ford’s Theatre.
On another historical note, it’s also the day Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald’s franchise.
Richelle Forato, head nurse on the delivery team at Memorial Care Miller’s Children and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach, arrived for work on the 15th, and found the night shift nurses setting up birthday balloons and banners in the delivery…
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