Two inseparable sisters in Minnesota gave birth to children 90 minutes apart in adjacent hospital rooms.
Brittany Schille, who had an induction scheduled, was admitted to M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, Minnesota, on the morning of December 14.
The preschool teacher, 30, had been there less than three hours when she heard a familiar voice in the hall.
Schille’s sister, Ashley Carruth, was in labor – and not only that, but she was moving into the next room. The brothers could not believe their luck.
“We looked at each other and started to cry,” Carruth, 29, told TODAY’s parents. “For nine months I prepared myself knowing that I would have to give birth without Britt because of COVID-19. And then there she was. It was comforting and so surreal. “
Schille noted that when she and Carruth were girls, they pretended to be mothers of their dolls.
“We wanted to be mothers together and then it happened in real life!” she said.
The women said they believed that the exciting turn of events must have been planned by his father, Paul Wayne Lemke, who died of cancer in 2016. The family was everything to him, they said.
“He made it happen,” Schille shared. “He was looking at us and smiling. He knew we needed each other. For some people it may seem like a crazy coincidence, but for us … we know it’s God and our father. “
Carruth’s son, Cassius John, was born first, followed by Zander Paul, named after his late grandfather. Carruth and her husband, John, are also the parents of a 3-year-old daughter, Eden.
“I’ve been calling Ash with questions. She’s been through this before. She knows what she’s doing,” Schille told the parents TODAY. “We will be up in the middle of the night, eating, texting and talking.”
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