I got a double lottery winning bonus on the same day with my $100,000 lotto baby
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A North Carolina woman had an experience this week she’ll never forget.
She got a double bonus by both giving birth and winning the lottery on the same day.
Just hours after Brenda Gomez Hernandez, 28, delivered her baby girl on November 9, she won a prize in the North Carolina Powerball Lottery.
The housekeeper from Concord learned that she had won $100,000 in the Powerball drawing that day.
Her lucky ticket in the Nov. 9 drawing matched the numbers on four white balls and the Powerball to win $50,000, lottery officials said.
It was the 2X Power Play multiplier that doubled her win with a $3 Powerball ticket, said the lottery.
“I feel like she brought me my luck,” Hernandez said about her new family member. “I’m so thankful.”
Hernandez’s strategy for picking her tickets was inspired by her other children’s birthdays. She had used her sons’ birth dates to pick her numbers for this game.
She bought her winning ticket at a QuikTrip convenience store on Warren C. Coleman Boulevard in Concord.
“When I found out I cried,” she told the Lottery. “I’m just so excited and happy.”
The lucky winner picked up her prize on Wednesday from the lottery’s headquarters in Raleigh.
This amounted to a total of $65,015.00 after taxes.
She told the North Carolina Lottery that a “large amount” of her prize money would go to paying for her house.
Another coincidence with babies: this time from a Norwegian mother of three who has had a similar experience.
The 32-year-old gas station operator bizarrely produces both children and lottery wins each time she gives birth.
Each time Hege Oksnes, from a tiny island off Norway's west coast - gives birth, someone in her family wins the national lottery.
So far their family has won:
2006: 4.2 million crowns (US$512,000 )
2009: 8.2 million crowns (US$1m)
2012: 12.2 million crowns (US$1.4m)
