20 ‘leaplings’ born in DK and Udupi
Leaplings are babies born on the leap day
Team Udayavani, Mar 1, 2020, 11:59 AM IST
Udupi/Mangaluru: A total of twenty leaplings were born in the hospitals of the Udupi and Dakshina Kannada (DK) districts on Saturday, February 29.
Leaplings are babies born on the leap day (February 29) that comes in a leap year once every four years.
Sixteen babies were born in DK district while Udupi district saw four births. More boys than girls were born in DK (12 – 4) and it was the inverse in Udupi district (3 – 1).
Three babies born in Udupi were in the Kasturba hospital at Manipal (2 girls and 1 boy) while another boy was born in Adarsh Hospital.
In DK, seven births happened in Government Lady Goschen Hospital and five in Father Mueller Hospital. Mangaluru Nursing Home, KMC Hospital (Attavar), Puttur City Hospital and Adarsha Hospital (Puttur) saw one birth each.
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