Hospitals dress babies born on leap day in frog outfits

FILE PHOTO: Hospitals celebrated leaplings, the babies born on leap day, in adorable fashion: adorning newborns heads with knitted frog hats.

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FILE PHOTO: Hospitals celebrated leaplings, the babies born on leap day, in adorable fashion: adorning newborns heads with knitted frog hats.
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By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
March 1, 2020
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Hospitals celebrated leaplings, the babies born on leap day, in adorable fashion: adorning newborns heads with knitted frog hats.

The chances are slim, about 1 in 1,461, of being born on a leap day, which only occur every four years.

To celebrate, babies born at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis gave the babies frog hats and special blankets.

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Hospitals in Texas and Pennsylvania also dressed up leaplings born there in the past.

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