Twin Sisters Welcome First Baby Same Day

Twin sisters, Katie Bowden and Amy Meredith-Davies, beat the odds of 400,000-to-one to give birth to their first baby on the same day. The babies arrived on June 10, same day Amy clocked 30. Her older sister, Katie, who was born on the other side of midnight, had celebrated hers the previous day.

Katie gave birth to a baby girl, Ella, in the early hours of the day, while Amy welcomed a son, Henry, later in the day at a hospital 26 miles away from her sister’s.

‘We’ve done everything in our lives at similar times. Our family are used to it. We got married within a year of each other too. Katie got married in June 2012 and I was married in August 2013,’ Mrs Meredith Davies said.

And in another coincidence, the sisters, originally from Gowerton, Swansea, had both told their family of the happy news as they celebrated their father Spencer Meredith’s 70th birthday.

‘We were supposed to be going paintballing as a family but I’d just found out I was pregnant so couldn’t take part. I’d told my mother but my sister had guessed I was pregnant and asked my mother at a family meal revealing that she was too. So within one weekend my parents found out we were both pregnant,’ Mrs Bowden said.

Mrs Bowden said neither of the sisters had known that the other had been trying for a baby.

‘We hadn’t spoken about it,’ she said. ‘I just can’t get over the fact that we fell pregnant at the same time.’

However, being a twin, double the joy of pregnancy also meant double the anxiety.

Mrs Bowden added: ‘Obviously, like any pregnancy, you have the worry before you get to the 12th week and all the other concerns throughout the pregnancy milestones but as well as worrying about your own baby you worry for your twin. It was quite an anxious time.’

Having been given due dates just three days apart the twins had expected that the births would be close, but never expected their babies would arrive on the same day.

‘I was given June 5 as my due date and Amy was given June 2,’ said Mrs Bowden.

She gave birth to Ella, who weighed 7lbs 6oz, at 5.38am in Singleton Hospital, Swansea while Mrs Meredith-Davies had 8lbs 7oz Henry in Bridgend’s Princess of Wales Hospital at about 11.15pm the same day.

‘It was bizarre because I was in labour and had a message from my mother saying Amy was being induced,’ said Mrs Bowden. ‘But still I thought that would be the next day. It was really funny because when my mum came to visit she would tell the midwife that she now had to leave to see my twin who was also having a baby. Everyone thought it was amazing.’

Mrs Meredith-Davies added, ‘June is going to be a month of major celebrations in the family…I think we’ll have a big celebration next year because we didn’t really do much to celebrate our 30th but we did have the best presents ever.’

Source: DailyMail