FOR three of the past six years, Kristin Lammert, from Oviedo, Florida, the United States, has spent Aug. 25 in a delivery room. She calls herself a planner, but nothing could have prepared her for how her pregnancies played out: three daughters, born three years apart on the same day. When Sophia, Lammert’s first daughter, was born Aug. 25, 2015, the only other family member she shared a birthday with was their rescue dog, Koda Bear. Sophia spent her third birthday welcoming her sister Giuliana to the world. This year, they repeated the Aug. 25 tradition with the birth of their sister, Mia. “By my third one, I’m like, ‘Wow, this is kind of like freaky fate,’” Lammert said. Lammert said there was some planning on when they wanted to have their babies. They knew they wanted three years in between each baby. For their first, they had August in mind because it was in between the big holidays. For their second, they only planned for three years after the first. For their third, they were aiming for a due date after Sept. 1, since Lammert didn’t want her daughter to be the youngest in her class at school. Lammert was also induced for all three of her pregnancies at the guidance of her doctors, due to added stress on Lammert and the baby during early labor. “The date doesn’t just automatically line up. My doctors were not going to induce me just because the date sounded cool,” Lammert said. “My body just, now we know, needs that extra help.” Dr. Christine Greves, an OB-GYN at Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, did not oversee Lammert’s delivery, but she said the coincidence is “not something I’ve personally seen or heard of.” “What we do know is that this phenomenon is extremely rare,” Greves said. (SD-Agencies) | 