Sarasota Memorial’s Venice campus welcomes one of them, its first ever on Feb. 29
“Sarasota Memorial Health Care System welcomed a total of 13 lucky Leap Day babies” on Feb. 29, Allison Gottermeier, multi-media producer for the system, wrote in a March 1 announcement.
“Twelve ‘leaplings’ were born at the Sarasota Campus and one was born at the Venice Campus,” she wrote.
The first ever Leap Day baby born at SMH-Venice was Emmett Sinibaldi, who arrived at 7:56 a.m. on Feb. 29, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and measuring 20 inches long,” Gottermeier reported. His parents — Josh and Angela — “live on Venice Island along with Emmett’s 3-year-old big brother Henry, she added.
“The chances of a baby being born on Feb. 29th are 1 in 1,461,” Gottermeier pointed out. Previously, the Sarasota Campus delivered seven babies on Leap Day in 2016, and eight on Feb. 29, 2020, she noted.