{"id":237129,"date":"2020-12-30T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237129"},"modified":"2020-12-29T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:05:58","slug":"pregnant-sisters-pandemic-birth-90-minutes-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-sisters-pandemic-birth-90-minutes-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant sisters who encouraged each other through pandemic give birth 90 minutes apart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two sisters received unexpected joy this month when they welcomed baby boys on the same day. Ashley Carruth and Brittany Schille both learned they were pregnant in April after their state of Minnesota went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Together they made it through the struggles of pregnancy during a global health crisis and ended up giving birth to baby boys just 90 minutes apart<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Even for baby showers and things like that, it’s not normal and not what you expect in your head, so it’s hard,” Schille explained<\/a> about being pregnant during the pandemic. “But having someone like my sister going through it was just so comforting.”<\/p>\n

Both babies were due in December and the sisters used the same doctor. Their due dates were a few days apart, but no one expected that they would be in labor at the same time. Schille was scheduled to be induced, and Carruth’s baby boy decided he wanted to join his cousin outside the womb as soon as possible. Carruth\u00a0went into labor<\/a> in the early morning hours of December 14.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0How you can support women and preborn babies during the coronavirus pandemic<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n