01 September,2010 11:19 AM IST | | Agencies
Two sisters in Britain have delivered baby boys on the same day at the same hospital.
The odds of their giving birth in the same hospital on the same day were 125,000 to one, according to bookmakers.
The sisters Catherine Morris and Dawn Potts amazed midwives at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire with the timing of the births, both within seven hours of each other, reports the Daily Mail.
Morris, who went into labour first but gave birth second, was given the room reserved for her sister's caesarean section.
On being told that the room originally intended for her had been taken, Potts sent a text message to her sister joking that she had "pinched my bed".
The sisters had been expecting their babies within four days of each other at the start of September.
Potts, 31, a hairdresser, had her caesarean brought forward 11 days, and gave birth to Brody Lee, weighing 3.49 kg, last Wednesday.
On the same day, Morris, 34, was taken to hospital to have her labour induced after an ante-natal appointment revealed she had a low-lying placenta.
Originally scheduled for delivery Sep 9, Ethan Fletcher, who weighed in at 3.83 kg, now shares the same birthday as his cousin.
Morris, a cardiac physiologist from Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, already has a two-year-old son, Finley.
She said of her sister: "We're really close and share our problems. Now we're sharing something amazing by having babies on the same day."
