Sisters Who Lost Dad Go Into Labor Simultaneously & Deliver Boys Next To Each Other

Aug 26, 2021 by apost team

Having someone to lean on during both difficult and exciting times can be extremely important for people as they navigate life’s challenges. Whether it’s a best friend, a partner or a sibling, it’s important that people are able to find that one person that they can completely trust and rely on no matter what is happening in their lives.

A set of sisters from Minneapolis, Minnesota, have faced a number of challenges and great joys together throughout their life and had a monumental reason to celebrate together in December 2020. Sisters Ashley Carruth and Brittany Schille weathered their pregnancy together after finding out they were both pregnant in April 2020 with due dates in December of that year. Although there were new obstacles that came with being pregnant during a pandemic, such as dealing with lockdown restrictions, the sisters stuck side by side as they ventured into motherhood.

The two siblings were close growing up and always enjoyed having each other to rely on, especially during the tough times. Carruth and Schille sadly lost their father a few years prior and constantly looked to the other for help and positivity as they navigated their grief together. Years later, they banded together once again as they both went through their pregnancies at the same time.

Coincidentally, the sisters shared even more in common than they had previously thought. They grew even closer together after finding out that they were delivering their babies on not only the same day in the same hospital but also in neighboring rooms at almost the exact same time.

WCCO reported that Carruth and Schille went through their nine months of pregnancy together, as they shared the same due date month and even the same doctor. They had gotten used to leaning on each other during hard times and going to each other for advice, especially following the death of their father back in 2016, who had died from cancer. Banding together once again, the two sisters stuck by each other’s side during a challenging year and the unexpectedness that comes with being pregnant.

Schille’s induction date was before her sister’s, but that didn’t prevent the two from giving birth at almost the same time. “She had texted me at 2:30 in the morning, saying, ‘I’m having contractions, I might be meeting you at the hospital,’” Schille said, explaining how Carruth went into labor at the same time she did.

WCCO reported that the sisters got neighboring rooms at M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, Minnesota. “We would text back and forth ‘what are you dilated to, have you had an epidural yet,’” Schille explained. Each sister gave birth to a son, and their healthy boys were born just 90 minutes apart from one another, as per WCCO. 

According to the sisters, they believed that this was a wink from their late father as a way of helping them stay together during such a time of isolation due to the pandemic. The boys were named Cassius John and Zander Paul, the latter named after the sisters’ father, Paul. Sharing the experience only brought the sisters even closer together. Carruth said, “During a pandemic when you’re not even allowed to have visitors, it was such a ray of hope for our family.”

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