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Iowa Baby’s Numbers Come Up 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Oct. 13, 2012 11:58am Madeleine Morgenstern

Laila Fitzgerald was born 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. (Image source: Des Moines Register)

Laila Fitzgerald is only two days old, but she already has some awesome trivia attached to her name.

The Des Moines, Iowa baby was born weighing 8 pounds, 9 ounces on Oct. 11, 2012 at 1:14 p.m. — or 1314 military time.

That’s 8-9-10-11-12-13-14.

Her mother, 26-year-old Katie Deremiah, told the Des Moines Register she had a feeling Thursday was the day, even though her due date wasn’t until Oct. 19. The birth was natural, with no inducements to speed things up, the newspaper reported.

Laila’s dad, 26-year-old Ryan Fitzgerald, said his father had mentioned the military time possibility that morning. A nurse noted it that way right after the baby was born, keeping with the hospital’s standard practice for recording time. Finally, there was the birth weight.

The family seems to have a flair for numbers, to say the least: Their son Jackson was born last year on Sept. 10 — or 9/10/11.

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scherzophrenic
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:31pm
They’re Irish Twins!

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 2:06am
  Pretty crazy odds for sure!
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 9:29am
  They’re the only people I would suggest go play the lottery.
  
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SIXFRIGATES
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:15pm
Ya, well, my 2 daughters were both born on 10/14, 2 years apart. :P

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- scherzophrenic
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:27pm
  My daughter was born on Easter Sunday in 1997. The evening she was born, there was a comet in the sky and a total eclipse of the moon.
  
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- scherzophrenic
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:29pm
  My husband’s brothers and sisters were born many years apart beginning in 1954 through 1964 on these consecutive days: 4/14, 4/15, and 4/16. He was born 9/21 in the middle of all that consecutivity.
  
  My daughter was born August 17, on a Friday. Her son was born December 17, also on a Friday.
  
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bdandsl
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 7:02pm
Cool. What’s the odds in that?

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- TheBurningTruth
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:39pm
  Depends on how you look at it. The odds for any specific individual are very low, but once you get to to Oct, 11, 2012, then the odds increase dramatically. Somewhere, some baby was going to be born at 13:14 on that day, so the only real randomness was the weight. Looked at that way, the odds that SOME baby would have those numbers aren’t that long.
  
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- RRFlyer
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 9:28am
  I go through this in my mind at times: the odds of someone winning the lottery is 100%. The odds of you winning it get a little harder, but someone Will win it.
  
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louzyana
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 6:16pm
Cute story. But, why in the world would you give your baby the last name of a man who still hasn’t married you after two children?

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- USALOVER2011
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 7:38pm
  I kept looking back at the article to check if I’m missing anything about the couple being married or not…There is nothing. Where did you get the idea that their not married? The mom uses her maiden name? Not all women uses their husbands last names, specially the professional ones!
  
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- Midwest Blonde
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 7:44pm
  Why do you assume they aren’t married? I’ve known a few couples who are married but she opted to keep her maiden name.
  
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- jman-6
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Child support. But that doesn’t mean they’re not married just cuz she don’t change her last name.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:12pm
To many of you are uptight..”I wasted 30 seconds of my life”… C’mon people.. I think its neat.. I mean how often would you ever see something like that! We can’t just think about the bad in the world all the time… life goes on and we wil get through this! Sometimes I gotta have something to make me smile.. and this article did!

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ShyLow
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:07pm
I was born 7 years to the day of the 1st moon landing. My mother was born 7 years to the day of Israel becoming a state. I was also born on my parents aniversary.
The girl that dumped me and lead to God speaking to me was born on”The fourteenth day of the 1st month”

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sbenard
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:04pm
I can’t believe I clicked on this story. It wasted 30 seconds of my life!

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- Mudd
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 6:14pm
  I put it off all day and finally clicked on it because I was bored. Now I’m bored and uninterested.
  
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- Cosmos102
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:59pm
  LOL… Now I’m really ready for bed. This story has put me to sleep.
Ella
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:45pm
and I thought those were the winning lotto numbers in florida……never mind…. there are 7 numbers

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- Gary Fishaholic
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:06pm
  OOPS so did I.
  
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- ShyLow
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:27pm
  I had Jerulusim syndrome the day Jack Whitacker won the lottery on “Christmas day”. On that day I was at my sisters house in Jumping Branch “by God” West Virginia. “The Branch”
  From my sisters house you can push off with your feet on a bicycle and coast all the way to where Jack Whitacker grew up.
  The closest river to Jumping Branch is the “New River”
  
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- USALOVER2011
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 7:40pm
  Yeah, me too Ella. LOL
  
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Grasshopper42
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:19pm
Had twins born 8/7/87 8:07

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- Gumbercules
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:33pm
  I bet this couple is greatful they’re first child wasn’t born on 9/11/11. Hard to have a happy birthday on that day. . .
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on October 15, 2012 at 9:33am
  My daughter shares Hitler’s birthday (4-20), my son shares Jefferson’s birthday (4-13), and I have the best of all (9-12). Everyone on my husband’s side of the family has a birthday that is divisible by 7. It’s funny how those things work out.
  
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Weathershipsailor
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:43pm
@Wool-Free; Right you are! Still, I’m trying to remember what the numbers guy said??? I remember Pat having a lot of fun with him

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- freedomofspeech
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:20pm
  First person I thought of is Gary the numbers guy
  
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Wango
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:24pm
Evil! Numerology! The devil’s playground! Repent, sinners!

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- freedomofspeech
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:21pm
  God uses numbers too 3,7,12,40
  
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- ShyLow
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:40pm
  144 is a number God uses alot. Gas prices were $1.44 a gallon the day I threw a bottle of wine to get arrested so God could set my court day on May 1st. May 1st would not be on most peoples radar till 12 years later, or 144 months. God created the world in six days or 144 hours.
  The day I threw the wine was March 20th 3:20 “Revelations 3:20″ Knock Knock Knock Penny
  
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- ShyLow
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 5:39pm
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUq-MIbFLo Nails of the cross measured in pennies
  Abraham on the penny
  JCPenny
  Penny born on “The fourteenth day of the 1st month”
  Aaron was the 1st high priest. My name is Aaron
  Keeps with the first and the last theme
  My nearest JCPenny is in the “Cross” Roads mall
  
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PAPPY72
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:22pm
How in the world is this even news!

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- MaleneSBrown
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:32pm
  Who even thought to make a big deal out of it in the first place? Someone with nothing to do?
  
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- WireWizard
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Hey, Pappy
  You should decide what is and isn’t news and start your own news site!
  
  Oh, wait, we have NBC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, ….
  
  Never mind. Just stay here and bitch. We’ll just laugh at you.
  
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- Papa
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:47pm
  It’s interesting for a quick grin. OMG if you don’t want to read it, THEN DON’T!!!
  
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- PutMoreOnMyPlate
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:00pm
  If all the stories were about children being born this would be a perfect world :)
  
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- ljjkj
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:51pm
  You do realize that websites and newspapers often cover “quirky” news as a palette cleanser, right? Easily, you could just avoid clicking on it.
  
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stephaniebader1109
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:06pm
I think the whole numbers thing is cool, and did you realize the age difference between the brother and his new little sister they are 1yr 1month and 1 day apart. Cool, congrats to you guys.

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- scherzophrenic
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:33pm
  Yep. My brother and I are also Irish twins!
  
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BenInNY
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:12pm
I have a friend who was born 7-7-77 at 8:17 (7 hours, 77 minutes into the day)

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- WireWizard
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Is your friend the 7th son of a 7th son?
  
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KeithOlberdink
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:05pm
Here’s another number he just inherited…16… As in 16 trillion dollar debt. Welcome to hell little man!

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- MittensKittens
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:11pm
  Good one.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:23pm
  You skipped 15 . . .as in the 15 minutes of fame Paul Paul is enjoying before he and Romney get the wedgy they deserve.
  
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piper60
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:44pm
I thought maybe it had something to do with the lottery. Dissappointing.

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Eastinfection
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:24pm
Here’s PBS’s reaction to this story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZshZp-cxKg

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G.E.R
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:15pm
BFD. How is this news?

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- blackyb
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:39pm
  Me too.
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:13pm
I can’t believe I bothered to click that story…

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- johnVMFA122
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:08pm
  I cannot believe you wasted the time to comment…
  
  Congrats to the family, and godspeed little one, you’re gonna need it…
  
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jpndhouse
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
Pretty interesting…

These are the types of statistics you hear on ESPN… “He has never thrown an interception on a third down in the third quarter of the third game during his third year starting on the 3rd of the month and the three yard line…”

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- Lantern
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:27pm
  I usually find that when the announcers start saying something like ” he hasn’t had an interception in 127 games” the quarterback throws an interception not long afterwards.
  
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face.chewer
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
Devil child

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klevalt
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
That is certainly something to put into the baby book!

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woodyee
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
So, whose got 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 7?

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Dick Van Patten:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k
  
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- JRHelgeson
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:23pm
  Our first daughter was born on 01/02/03, at 4:56 PM, Weighing in at 7lbs, 8oz, and had an APGAR score of 9.
  
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Weathershipsailor
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
And that adds up to 66! What was it the “numbers guy” said on the Glenn Beck show?

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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:17pm
  Check your math.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
Amazing story.

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