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Baby born on 8-08-08 at 8:08
(and you won’t believe what the girl weighed!)
Published 06:19 p.m., August 8, 2008
Photo by Lauren Radomski
Lindsay and Joe Hauer of Fergus Falls are the parents of Hailey Jo Hauer, born at 8:08 a.m. this morning at Lake Region Hospital and weighing eight pounds, eight ounces.
Talk about a memorable birthday: A Fergus Falls family is welcoming a baby girl born at 8:08 a.m. on the eighth day of August, weighing in at eight pounds, eight ounces.
Lindsay Hauer’s cesarean section was scheduled for 8 a.m. Friday morning at Lake Region Hospital and began right on the dot. When hospital staff told her the time of her daughter’s birth, Hauer thought they were pulling her leg.
“I thought they were just joking,” she said. “I didn’t believe them when they told me.”
“The time was to the minute,” said Hauer’s husband, Joe.
Imagine Hauer’s surprise when, still in the operating room, she received a call from staff in the hospital’s birthing suite, where Hailey Jo Hauer was being measured and weighed.
“I had the scale on grams at first,” said Jenny Harstad, Hauer’s nurse. Based on the baby’s weight in grams, Harstad estimated Hailey would weigh-in within the eight-pound range. She later joked she’d hoped to find significance in the baby’s length as well.
“I was trying to shrink her down to 18 inches,” Harstad said. Instead, Hailey measured 19.5 inches.
Back in the operating room, hospital staff resolved to buy lottery tickets later in the day.
“My anesthesiologist said to me, ‘Do you realize this is once in a million? This will not happen anywhere else,’” Hauer said.
Hailey is Lindsay and Joe Hauer’s second child. Evan Hauer, 16 months, will meet his sister Saturday.
“We’ll introduce him tomorrow and see how it goes,” Joe Hauer said.
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Clay Aiken had a baby at 8:08 this morning, too...not sure how much that one weighed though.
Posted by tsy86h (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 7:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congrats, what a sweet little girl!
Posted by melissams7924 (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 7:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations to the Hauer family!! Hailey is a beautiful name.
Posted by Colt45 (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 7:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations to the family!!!
C45
Posted by benjaminpatrick (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations! I know this is a bit of a stretch, but I'm wondering if it's just a coincidence that her name.... is Hailey Jo Hauer...as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet and Jo sounds alot like O....H-Jo-H = 8-Jo-8 = 8-0-8 = 8:08.
Posted by mandy (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 9:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
SHE IS BEAUTIFUL! WE ARE SO HAPPY FOR YOU.
- LOVE YA - THE RICHS
Posted by chargerz (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 10:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
another in cedar rapids, ia
http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.d...
Posted by hfvathome (anonymous) on August 8, 2008 at 10:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Twenty years ago, the same thing happened - Princess Beatrice (daughter of Fergie and Prince Andrew) was born on 8-8-88 at 8:08 am.
Posted by SallyRay (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 9:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congrats Joe and Lindsay. She is beautiful!!!
Posted by oh_its_you (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 9:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WOW you guys are on MSN's Today's picks! What an exciting time for your family!
Posted by Bev (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 11:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I talked to a friend in Arizona, she said, WOW Fergus Falls is making headline news!! Fun!!!
Posted by Elaine (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 11:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Your story made our paper, the Island Packet, in Hilton Head Island, SC. I was born in Lake Region Hospital and my oldest niece had the first baby of the year there in 2002. Congratulations!
Posted by philori (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 12:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations Joe, Lindsay and Evan!! You have a famous little girl! :o)
She is beautiful and give her a hug from us until we see her!
Love,
Phil, Lori, Ben and Krissy
Posted by killdeer (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 1:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Best wishes for your little family! The new baby looks gr8t!It will be something when she turns 8 years old. I see this story made the MSN homepage news also-woo hoo!
Posted by jennlois (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 4:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I love these kinds of stories! It's a lot of fun to have those 8s in your numbers. My baby had a lot of 7s. She was born on the 7th of the month in 2007, weighed 7 lbs., born at 7:03 am, was the 7th member of our family, and was the 7th baby for that month for my doctor. :) I think that's all of her 7s. My baby didn't make the headline news though. Oh well. Pretty neat though! Congrats to the couple from this story! She's a cutie!
Posted by 1125thmp (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 5:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Put that in the book for selling the treatment center to the Chinese. Its auspicious, all those 8's they will love it.
Posted by Anonymous (anonymous) on August 9, 2008 at 10:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
A little boy was born in IA same time etc. You never know they may meet someday many years from now... How cool would that be. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
http://gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...
Posted by gemini6 (anonymous) on August 10, 2008 at 1 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WOW that is pretty special!! and after calculating Haileys numerology based on her dob her number is 8 as well just for your information
Congratulations
Posted by chedsgirl (anonymous) on August 11, 2008 at 8:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations on your new baby!
Just a thought though...."A Planned Cesarean Section"....sounds more like the time and date was more ummm...a lucky hit!....
All in All...your baby is a blessing!
Posted by JudyMelissa (anonymous) on August 11, 2008 at 7:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
With all of the sadness around, it is great to hear a story like this one. I heard about on Headline News...How great is that!!! In case no one has no on has noticed it...here is another 8:
HAILEY JO = 8 letters !!!!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE ARRIVAL OF
HAILEY JO
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