Amazing coincidences ... neither Katie Bowden (left) nor Amy Meredith-Davies knew the other twin was trying to get pregnant. Picture: Facebook/Amy Meredith-Davies Source: SuppliedTWIN sisters, who have always done things together, went into labour on different days but still delivered their first babies within hours of each other.
Katie Bowden turned 30 on June 9 and her twin sister Amy Meredith-Davies (born after the turn of midnight) turned 30 on June 10 — the day each sibling gave birthday to her firstborn.
The Welsh sisters’ family, who learned of their pregnancies during celebrations for their father Spencer’s 70th birthday, are accustomed to celebrating their milestones together.
“We’ve done everything in our lives at similar times,” said Ms Meredith-Davies, a health, social care and wellbeing facilitator told Wales Online. “Katie got married in June 2012 and I was married in August 2013.”
Synchronicity ... the twins were given due dates three days apart but had their babies on the same day. Picture: Thinkstock Source: News Limited
Neither twin knew the other was trying to get pregnant, though. “We hadn’t spoken about it,” says Ms Bowden. I’d been trying for a few months and because I’ve got polycystic ovaries I’d been to get tested. I just can’t get over the fact that we fell pregnant at the same time.”
The coincidence was a cause for celebration but also for elevated anxiety. “Obviously, like any pregnancy, you have the worry before you get to the 12th week and all the other concerns throughout the pregnancy milestones but as well as worrying about your own baby you worry for your twin,” Ms Bowden said. “It was quite an anxious time.”
The twins were given due dates three days apart — June 5 for Ms Bowden and June 2 for Ms Meredith-Davies. As it turned out, Ms Bowden gave birth to Ella, who weighed 3.35kg, at 5.38am in Singleton Hospital in Swansea while Amy had 3.83kg Henry in Bridgend’s Princess of Wales Hospital at about 11.15pm the same day.
Anxious times ... while Katie Bowden was in labour, she received a message that her twin sister was being induced. Picture: Facbook/Katie Bowden Source: Supplied
While Ms Bowden was in labour, she received a message from her mother that her twin sister was being induced. Nevertheless, she thought the babies would be born a day apart.
“It was really funny because when my mum came to visit she would tell the midwife that she now had to leave to see my twin who was also having a baby,” Ms Bowden said. “Everyone thought it was amazing.”
Ms Meredith-Davies, whose waters had broken the day before and was enduring a painful induction, said it was consoling to know her sister was going through the same thing.
To add to the already remarkable coincidences, Ms Bowden’s first midwife was named Katie, and Ms Meredith-Davies’ was named Amie.
“There were lots of odd things like that,” said Ms Meredith-Davies
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