*cue Twilight Zone music*
You know when you’re younger, and you promise your best friend that when you grow up you’ll have kids together at the exact same time? And while it’s a sweet idea, it’s generally not what actually happens.
So it’s pretty incredible that for identical twin sisters Sarah Mariuz and Leah Rodgers, it’s exactly what happened!
And even crazier is that although they live in different times zones in the US, their babies were born at the exact same time – Leah first, giving birth to a baby boy at 1:18 in Denver, Colorado, and Sarah giving birth to a girl at 1:18 in La Jolla, California.
While the pregnancies weren’t planned, the sisters are extremely close, and before they told each other their baby news, they both already knew.
“She showed up to my front door and I welcomed her and Nick [Sarah's husband] inside,” Leah told TODAY. “And I had this crazy twin intuition – I call it my ‘twintuition’ – and I knew she was pregnant, too.”
And when the amazing coincidence was confirmed, they were over the moon.
“I ran down the hallway and got the ultrasound pic out of my purse and slapped it down next to Leah's,” Sarah told TODAY. “We were jumping up and down, just so happy for each other. Everyone was just in shock.”
And crazy again (yes, there’s more!) was the significance of the sex of the babies. Leah, who was always a tomboy, gave birth to a baby boy while Sarah, always the ‘girlier’ twin, gave birth to a little girl.
Fate really does move in mysterious ways. Incredible.
