Posted on 09/03/2025 12:41:57 PM PDT by DFG
Sisters Rachel Schmidtberger and Lindsey Denny both gave birth to a son on Tuesday, August 26 at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Despite doing everything together, from undergrad to medical school to both working as dermatologists at the same clinic, twins Rachel and Lindsey were shocked to discover that they were pregnant at the same time and shared the same due date.
One of the twins, Rachel, was already a mother to a little girl, while her sister, Lindsey, said that she had begun to give up on having a baby after struggling with infertility.
While both babies' due dates were set for September 1st, Rachel had an induction scheduled for August 26th. While she was laboring at the hospital as planned, her sister Lindsey was home babysitting Rachel's daughter, only to have her water break spontaneously.
(I hope they had a backup babysitter on standby!) The twins shared the same doctor (of course), who moved around her schedule to be there for both deliveries, which ended up taking place about 12 hours apart.
The two boys, named Hayes and Owen, were given just a little more in common, as their moms chose to give them both the same middle name of Michael.
While they're technically cousins, the boys are genetically half-siblings, or "brother-cousins," as their moms call them.
I guess the shared birthday makes party planning easy!
They look alike
They walk alike
And some times they ever talk alike
What a crazy pair
“You could lose your mind!”
“I guess the shared birthday makes party planning easy!”
Well they do seem to know how to party.
What a nice story.
I didn’t know the children of twins are considered half siblings. Interesting to learn that.
“ Sisters Rachel Schmidtberger and Lindsey Denny both gave birth to a son on Tuesday”
I understand what this sentence is trying to convey, but it reads like the worked together to birth a son. There are better ways to write this. I wonder if there are still editors employed in the world.
“”””Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas””””
Where I was born.
Burn the witches!
Ummm… I mean… what a lovely coincidence. Congratulations
No there are no editors any longer.
News organizations have cut back in recent years. Nobody proofreads or edits anything before it’s published.
“both gave birth to sons” maybe?
Not mine
Yes, the word “each” should have been used instead of “both.”
I am so sick of the dreck that passes for writing these days.
When cousins are two of a kind!
The mothers are identical twins so have virtually identical DNA, so the boys should share as much DNA as siblings from the same parents would share.
Genetically, not legally.
Baby Denny (I assume that’s Owen) is not entitled to a share of the Schmidtberger estate.
But since their mothers are identical twins, the two boys have many genes in common.
The babies are gonna look like the mail man....
“ The babies are gonna look like the mail man....”
Well the article said the sisters do everything together. Does that mean “everything?”
At least they aren’t Siamese twins who gave birth to the same baby!
That is a really cool story.
I’m happy for them.
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