Identical twin sisters Jill Justiniani and Erin Cheplak share the same birthday, and now their newborn sons do too. Indeed, Jill and Erin, both from Yorba Linda, Calif., gave birth to their sons on the same day, May 5, at the same hospital, just hours apart.
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Their sons, named Oliver and Silas, were born with exactly the same measurements, each weighing 3,260 kilograms and measuring 50.8 centimeters at birth, according to hospital records. “The match continues,” Erin, 30, whose husband, Zach, is an identical twin, told Good Morning America. She married her husband in a small ceremony during the coronavirus pandemic, and they had a bigger wedding celebration almost a year later, in August 2021.
On the morning of their wedding celebration, Erin said she woke up to a call from Jill, who surprised her sister by telling her that she was expecting her first child with husband Ian. she married in 2019. “I screamed and woke up my husband. It was such an exciting time” Erin said. A week later, while on honeymoon in the Maldives, she found out she was pregnant, too, and made an early morning phone call to Jill to let her know right away.
“I took the pregnancy test, I saw the two lines but it was very faint” explained Erin. And she adds: “I was wondering if I was seeing what I was seeing, and I FaceTimed Jill from the Maldives and she was like, ‘Yeah, that’s it. That’s it !'” Together, the twin sisters, who say they have been close all their lives, have therefore embarked on the adventure of becoming mothers at the same time.
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“Sharing our pregnancy together was really special because we really had each other’s support every step of the way. We were constantly able to check in and support each other” explained Jill. The sisters, who at the time lived in different towns about 45 minutes apart, said they and their husbands had a running gag during their pregnancies that their sons would be born on the same day, but without really believing it.
That their sons would also share a birthday seemed less and less likely as the end of their pregnancies approached. And for good reason, Jill, who was a week early in her pregnancy, had to undergo a caesarean section on May 5. As for Erin, she was due to undergo an induced labor on the scheduled date, May 15. But on the morning of May 5, she said she felt what she believed to be knots in her stomach because she was nervous for Jill, who was due to give birth that day. In reality, Erin, who moved to Yorba Linda in her last month of pregnancy, ended up in the same labor and delivery unit at the same hospital as her sister.
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Two births 5 hours apart
“I called my husband and said, ‘I’m not kidding. I think my water just broke. I then contacted the labor and delivery unit and my next call was for Jill and I said, ‘Okay, that’s not a joke. I’m pretty sure my water just broke” explained Erin. Erin and Jill and their husbands spent the next few hours alternately going to each other’s hospital rooms, with Erin waiting for her labor to progress and Jill awaiting her C-section, which was pushed back to later in the day. day due to several emergency caesareans in the hospital.
A part of me was thinking: “What are the chances of that happening? I can’t believe this is happening. We’ve been so close and so inseparable that it all made sense, in a very weird way.”. Jill finally gave birth to her son, Oliver, at 6:39 p.m. local time, and five hours later, at 11:31 p.m., it was Erin’s turn to deliver her son, Silas. The two sisters recovered in rooms opposite each other and returned home at the same time, two days later. “All the nurses were saying, ‘it used to be a mum with two twin babies, and now it’s twin mums with one baby each’” confided Jill.
Incredible coincidence, isn’t it?
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