In a big household, it can be difficult to keep track of everyone’s birthdays.
But
the Soper family probably find it a little easier than most.
Their latest addition, Cearra, arrived on 10/10/10 – joining Cameron, born on 09/09/09, and Chloe, born on 08/08/08.
Amazing odds: Barbara and Chad Soper show off their third child, Cearra, born on 10/10/2010, with Chloe, born on 8/8/2008 and Cameron, who was born on 9/9/2009
'Mother Barbara Soper, 36, described Cearra as a ‘little miracle’, adding: ‘Chloe is lucky number eight, Cameron is lucky number nine and she is our lucky number ten.’
The family, from Michigan in the U.S., said there wasn’t any element of planning to the sequence – Cearra was born almost a month prematurely and Cameron two weeks early.
But Mrs Soper and her husband Chad, 33, admitted that Cearra’s arrival on Sunday evening had completed a pattern they thought would be ‘neat’ but had not dared to hope for.
Despite the startling coincidence, statisticians said that the Soper family’s achievement is not quite as remarkable as it first appears.
The ‘window’ for such a pattern of births occurs only in the first 12 years of a century, and ‘given that the first birth occurred in that window, the probability is not as astronomical as you might think’, explained Philip Stark, professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
He said that realistic odds would be around 2,500 to one. But despite their achievement, the Sopers say they are not tempted to aim for a fourth birth on November 11, 2011.
'Three is plenty - we don’t have any more planned,' Mrs Soper said.
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