Last week, a family in Marysville, Ohio welcomed their third child into a family. This birth would be unextraordinary for the general public except for the fact that the baby girl was born on October 2. This is the same date that her two older brothers were born on.
Kayla Cotton was born to parents Jenna and William Cotton. Their middle child, a son named Logan Cotton was born October 2, 2006, and their oldest boy, Ayden, was born October 2, 2003. Jenna Cotton was due on September 30, but the 23-year-old mother didn’t start having contractions until early October 2, just before a party for the boys was supposed to take place. She had a doctor’s appointment scheduled for later in the day but decided to stay for the party. At 7:07 p.m., baby Kayla was born weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces.
Bill Notz, a statistics professor at Ohio State University concluded that the odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million. A San Diego State University mathematician, however, says the odds of having three children born on the same date are 133,000 to 1 and having them all be male is 500,000 to 1. However, this is at least the second time the occurence has struck this year.
The Paez family from San Diego, California, also had their third child born on July 30th of this year. Three of the sons born to Erin and Allan Paez, Kellen, Aiden, and Rory were born on the same day in different years. The Paez’s oldest son, Devon, was born in April 2001. Their second child, Rory, was the first to be born on July 30th in 2002. Tragically, he died the same day he was born after complications from childbirth. The next year in 2003, their third son, Aiden, was born July 30th as well followed by Kellen who was born July 30, 2007. Kellen was actually born in his aunt’s driveway as his parents stopped to drop off the other two boys and didn’t make it out of the driveway.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAmazing coincidence. Does anyone know what the terminology is for this, if there is one?
I have a son and daughter both born on my(their father) birthday if any one knows the termonology or statistical odds of this happening please contact me @olskool22@yahoo.com.
Very cool. Our family has something similar. We have 3 children born one each day from Nov 26th to Nov 28th. The 29 is moms Birthday
I don’t think that is that too incredibly unusual. I was born on the same day as my sister and brother, all of us 2 years apart ,68, 70, and 72.
I also had my son and daughter born on my birthday…i was born in 1974, son in 2001 and daughter in 2007 all on October 3rd..
Almost 49 years ago I was born on Oct. 26, 1959. This was the same birthdate as my sister who turned one that year and my brother who turned 4 that year. So the three of us share the same birthday. Very unusual but true!!
Ok what are the odds of this. My mothers first born (who incidentally died aged six months) was a boy born February 8th on a Sunday. My older sister first born was a boy February 8th on a Sunday. My own first born was a boy February 8th on a Sunday and now my nephew, Jay (who was born February 8th)is in hospital with his wife, as a write this, waiting to give birth to her first child. Please let it be a boy and be tomorrow. If anybody wants to email me regarding this its bluewareman@yahoo.co.uk
I know 2 sisters, their aunt, and their grandma who all share the same birth date. One of the sister’s just had her son yesterday on the same date–Feb 17th.
my birthday is October 2nd! I know a lot of people born on this day. I wonder why that is?
I was born on September 24, same day as my sister 24 years before!!!
My older sister and younger half-sister both share the same birthday (July 11th) two years apart by two different mothers! (Same dad)
I was born June 5,1966 and I have a son Born june 5,1992, I did not Know My Mother or My fartheror any brothers or sisters but Dates seem to be coincdents in my Life
My sister was born on the day I was due (July 3) … and I was born on the day that my sister was due (July 11)
Me, my brother and nanna are all born on October 2. I was laughing when I read this because I wasnt expecting the story to also be on October 2!!…
I found this article very interesting as I too have three boys all born on July 30 and two of the three years are the same as the years in the article. My boys were born in 2002, 2003, and 2006. I also have two nieces who share a birthday. My sister’s gave birth in two different states just 30 minutes apart, December 30.
this is unique and special for all the families that share the same birth date… I also share my birthday with my oldest and my youngest son all of us were born on feb 02…Its hard at times becauses of age difference but we are blessed that we could share this special day with our love ones…I am blessed and thank god to have giving me two wonderful gifts on this date.. congrates to everyone that share there birthday…
My husband and his brother and sister all have the same birthday. His sis and bro are twins, and were born on his 2nd birthday.
My maternal grandfather was born on July 30. Exactly 20 years later, his daughter, (my mom) was born on July 30. Exactly 20 years later, I was born on July 30 and exactly 20 years later, my son was born on July 30. All of them natural childbirth-no c-sections. If you do the math, 9 months prior to July 30 is Halloween.
My 2 daughters and myself all share the same birthday. Me, 12/12/77, oldest daughter 12/12/97 and youngest daughter, 12/12/07. This must be a good day for me to ‘birth’. Great fun at birthday parties; too bad there aren’t alot of different digits to pick winning lottery numbers!!
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