Wed Jun 07, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Across the United States, some superstitious mothers-to-be took steps Tuesday to make sure their babies were not born on the most bedevilling of dates, 6-6-6.
In New York City, "people are cancelling left and right because of what today represents," said Liza Washington, an administrative assistant at Children's Hospital of the New York-Presbyterian Medical Center. More than a dozen deliveries were postponed because of 666, which is said to be the number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation.
Julie Haley, 33, of Reading, Mass., went into labour Monday. As of Tuesday afternoon, she still had not given birth. "We were going to try to get it out before midnight or I was going to keep my legs closed," she said.
"I don't want her to have that stigma for the rest of her life. When she gets older, her friends would say that anything bad would be because of her birthdate."
A Chicago obstetrician, Dr. Scott Pierce, performed a C-section on Monday on a woman who didn't want her son to be teased about his birthday and called names like Damien from the movie The Omen, about a sinister boy who turns out to be the Antichrist. A remake of the classic horror film was released Tuesday.
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Boy, just when you think you're the only superstitious person out there articles like these prove you wrong lol.
And the really sad thing? I can't say I wouldn't do the exact same thing if I was in the same situation as those women.
There, now you've found out something new and possibly weird about me. I can sometimes be highly superstitious lol.
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