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

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. Iowa sisters Allison Sweeney and Brandy Meisheid (center) welcomed babies just 29 minutes apart, while their sisters, Taylor Campbell and Rachel Mantermach, welcomed theirs just three days apart earlier this year (KCRG)Meisheid was concerned about her blood pressure on October 21 and went to the hospital after a six-hour meeting on a rezoning request, according to the Cedar Rapids Gazette. There, she was told to return the next day to induce labor.Then on October 22, Sweeney’s water broke at 4 a.m. and she joked with her husband that she wasn’t going to make it to school that day. “From there, it was kind of a joke, but a race to the finish line,” Meisheid told the Gazette. The two sisters were then in rooms next to each other as they delivered the newborns - which they refer to now as “cousin twins.”“Our family is not capable of not talking to each other,” Meisheid said. “We had the family chat going and then Allison and I had our own chat, like, how many centimeters? I’m stalled out at this.”The growing cousin crew has even earned a fitting nickname: the Quad Squad.“Everybody shares something in this story. There’s just too much coincidence for it not to be a greater purpose or something,” Meisheid said.Myles and Kohen were discharged from the hospital Saturday. All four sisters and their babies are happy and healthy.