An Apple Valley mom simply went 4 for 4 on her children all being born on the date 7/7.
Simply earlier than Nauzhae Drake, now 26, delivered her firstborn, she referred to as her mom whereas driving to high school. She advised her that she noticed a license plate that led to 4 sevens — her fortunate quantity. Drake’s mother took it as an indication.
“She was like, ‘Yep, that’s as a result of he’s approaching that day’,” Drake mentioned. “And I’m like, no, he’s not.”
However on July 7, 2019, Drake delivered her oldest, Kewan.
Two years later, on the identical date, she delivered Na’Zaiyla.
And in 2022, on the identical date, she delivered Khalani.
And about two weeks in the past, on July 7, Drake delivered a child boy, Kailowa.
None of her infants had been induced and none of them arrived on their due date. Drake feels that it’s a “signal from God at this level,” she mentioned.
Drake is at present in nursing college, graduating in December. She mentioned she went by means of all of her scientific rotations carrying Kailowa.
“They’re telling me to cease doing this and that as a result of I’m doing lots, they’re like, ‘you’re going to make your self go into labor,’ ” Drake mentioned. “However I ended up ending all of my clinicals and all of that, and I’m like, ‘I’m nonetheless pregnant!’”
Some moms have techniques for inducing labor — consuming spicy meals, exercising, driving down a bumpy street.
For Drake, adorning for her children’ celebration appears to do the trick.
“I’d be doing a balloon arch,” she mentioned. “And each time I do the balloon arch, like two hours later, once I lay down, my water breaks or I begin having contractions.”
Drake often goes all out for her children’ birthdays, renting an Airbnb residence with a pool and throwing an enormous social gathering, together with visits to amusement parks like Sesame Place, SeaWorld and the San Diego Zoo. This 12 months’s celebration was circus-themed, however it didn’t go as deliberate.
“My mom, my grandmother truly was within the supply room with me and so they had on like clown fits as a result of they had been prepared for the social gathering,” Drake mentioned. “And I used to be prepared for the social gathering too, till I went into labor.”
Some children get jealous when a sibling’s birthday rolls round and all the eye turns to the birthday little one. Drake mentioned her children love sharing a birthday, and so they’re particularly excited for this 12 months’s current, one other sibling.
“They battle over him already,” she mentioned, of Kailowa. “They’re so useful. It’s been wonderful.”
So what are the chances of one thing like this taking place? In keeping with Randall Swift, chairman of the maths division at California State Polytechnic College at Pomona, you usually tend to win the Powerball lottery 100 instances than to have 4 kids born on the identical date.
As a substitute of 4 siblings, he calculated utilizing an occasion of 4 unbiased people at a grocery retailer. The likelihood of those random strangers all having the identical birthday is about 0.000000000056349%, he mentioned.
However he mentioned these odds could also be larger for a mom giving beginning on the identical date, relying on private habits and well being patterns.
However to Drake, this coincidence is a blessing, she mentioned. Seven has all the time been Drake’s favourite quantity, however it has a brand new that means to her now.
“It’s perfection, completion,” she mentioned.
