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Randy D

What is an interesting, odd, funny, weird or cute fact about your birth? (Please see disclaimer below.)

DISCLAIMER: you are not being asked to reveal either your date of birth or your age.


My entry:
I was born premature and I weighed approximately three pounds (1.36 kilograms).  The doctor(s) did not expect me to live, and told my mother that she could go home and she would get a phone call when I died.

[It appears that that cynicism was what replaced bedside manner when dealing with a poverty-stricken single mother having her third child in a public general hospital.]

I guess I fooled them all.


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Posted - June 12, 2020
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  • 13395
    I was a 'yellow baby'. Yellow babies were a popular item around the time of my birthdate. 
      June 12, 2020 7:26 AM MDT
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  • 53503

     

      What did it mean?

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      June 12, 2020 7:33 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Myself and many babies were born around that time with a mild liver infection (yellow jaundice) which caused a slight yellowish skin color.
      June 12, 2020 7:45 AM MDT
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  • 44602
    One of my granddaughters had that. We thought it was normal, as she was the same color as her Korean Grandma...but it was the jaundice.
      June 12, 2020 10:14 AM MDT
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  • 44602
    Three of the planets were very close to one another in the sky. Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Maybe that is why I am so whacky.
      June 12, 2020 10:16 AM MDT
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  • 7792
    I was born exactly one month before the first moon landing. Down to the hour and I believe that was 4:18 p.m. This post was edited by Zack at July 30, 2020 12:54 PM MDT
      June 12, 2020 10:20 AM MDT
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  • 53503
    Wow!
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      June 12, 2020 11:22 AM MDT
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  • 10996
    I know nothing about my birth except that after having three daughters, my parents assumed they would have a son and had not bothered to pick a name for me. (I was born at a time when people didn't know the gender of their child until it was born.)
      June 12, 2020 8:15 PM MDT
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      I preferred not knowing the gender of my children when my wife was pregnant. I’m glad you and I escaped the days when expecting a baby means frantic scrambles to prepare the “proper“ nursery for the coming baby and even worse, gender-reveal parties.


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      July 30, 2020 1:46 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i came out with my sister
      June 13, 2020 2:20 PM MDT
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  • 1817

    not really a fact but a funny coincidence 

    my birthday is Jan 30, but i was originally due on Jan 18

    my spouses birthday is on Jan 18, we totes could have had the same birthday if I just came out on time! 


    now i am pregnant and due jan 30, so hopefully they will come one day early and we can have the same birthday

      July 30, 2020 12:42 PM MDT
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  • I'm told that after I was born the nurses had the maternity ward arranged so that myself and one other newborn boy were setup on the ends with all the baby girls in between.  They called us the linebackers.  If I could have spoken I would have corrected them as we were actually positioned to be either offensive tackles or defensive ends. 
      July 30, 2020 12:53 PM MDT
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