Baby born with the most "8"

"8" is always an auspicious number to the Chinese. To the Cantonese in particular, "8" ("paat") sounds like "faat," which means "prosperity."
Therefore, we can understand why the Beijing Olympics Organising Committee decided to kick start the world's greatest sporting event at 8.08 p.m. on the 8th day of the 8th month in the year 2008.
And it takes another one hundred years before we can have 08-08-08 again!




Hailey Jo Hauer was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in 2008 at 8:08 a.m. So it wouldn't make sense for her to weigh anything other than 8 pounds, 8 ounces.
Lindsey Hauer thought staff at Lake Region Hospital in Minnesota were joking when they told her the time of her daughter's birth. Then she got a call from the birthing suite noting Hailey's weight.



Nurse Jenny Harstad joked that she tried to shrink the baby to 18 inches from her actual 19.5 inches.
Several hospital staff members pledged to buy lottery tickets.