Sisters give birth minutes apart - outdoing their siblings who gave birth just days apart

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Two eastern Iowa sisters who were originally expected to give birth about two weeks apart ended up welcoming their babies less than half an hour apart - and beat their other siblings’ mark for having babies close near the same time.

Linn County Supervisor Brandy Meisheid was due November 13, while her sister, teacher Allison Sweeney, was expecting her baby on Halloween. However, the unborn cousins had other plans.

Meisheid's doctors induced her early, and Sweeney also delivered ahead of schedule. Their sons, cousins Myles and Kohen, now share the same birthday, October 22, born just 29 minutes apart.

“Having a family with four girls, it’s always a lifelong dream to be pregnant together, but it was never anything we put pressure on ourselves to do. It was just a ‘Could you imagine if this ever happened and how great that would be?’ And God had plans to let it happen,” Meisheid told KCRG.

As Meisheid mentioned, the sisters have two other siblings, who also welcomed babies Charles and Merritt earlier this year – just three days apart, about four months before Myles and Kohen arrived, minutes apart.