Twin Sisters Give Birth Just 12 Hours Apart in Texas
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- Twin sisters Rachel Schmidtberger and Lindsey Denny welcomed their sons on the same day
- They gave birth 12 hours apart on Aug. 26 at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston
- Both little ones share the middle name “Michael”
Identical twins Rachel Schmidtberger and Lindsey Denny are used to being in sync.
The sisters, 37, work as dermatologists at the same practice in Texas and gave birth last week just 12 hours apart.
They welcomed their sons on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
The twins have shared milestones their entire lives — including attending undergrad and medical school at the University of Texas — but still, their shared deliveries took them by surprise.
Schmidtberger and Denny had the same due date of Monday, Sept. 1, but Schmidtberger was originally scheduled for an induction last week while Denny planned to be induced two days later.
Schmidtberger was in labor at the hospital, as planned, and Denny was caring for Schmidtberger’s daughter when her water broke — a moment her sister caught through a home camera.
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Dr. Sharon Vila Wright rearranged her on-call schedule so she could deliver both babies in the same day.
Her and her sister’s sons — Hayes and Owen — share a middle name, Michael. Because their moms are identical, they are genetically half-siblings, too. They hae been jokingly nicknamed “brother cousins.”
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Denny originally learned she was pregnant around Christmas after previous fertility struggles and feeling like “giving up” on conceiving, according to NBC affiliate KPRC.
The boys’ births were a bit bittersweet, though, as Schmidtberger’s mother-in-law had recently died of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
While initially shocked at the synchronicity, Dr. Wright told KPRC that the sisters embraced the chaos as a part of their “twin connection.”
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In 2022, identical twins Jill Justiniani and Erin Cheplak similarly welcomed their sons on the same day in California.
“It just feels like it was supposed to be,” Justiniani told PEOPLE at the time. “It is a little surprising because what are the odds? But it’s like, of course, this would happen to us.”
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