On top of being pregnant at the same time, siblings Megan O’Brien and Sara Seyler, from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, both ended up welcoming identical twin girls too

A family has been left astounded after two sisters both welcomed identical twin girls within months of each other.

Megan O’Brien, 29, gave 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to daughters Lilah and Josie, but the parents would have to do a double take three months later.

Sara said she was initially nervous to tell Megan as she did not want to ‘steal her thunder’ (Image: Nicole Gwin / SWNS)

Sister Sara Seyler, 32, soon had Lennon and Parker and their mum can’t tell them apart, either.

The double pregnancies came as a shock to both women, from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, as twins do not run in the family at all.

Although Megan’s husband Matt is a triplet, there was no indication Megan would give 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to twins, never mind her sister Sarah too.

Lilah and Josie were soon joined by Lennon and Parker ( Image: Megan O’Brien / SWNS)

Reflecting on the moment she found out Sara was expecting twins as well, Megan said: “My jaw just dropped. I got tears in my eyes because there are no twins in our family anywhere. It was so cool that she was having twins too.

“When she told me that she was pregnant with twins I was actually not home. I was celebrating a friend’s bachelorette.

“I knew she was having an ultrasound – like her very first ultrasound – and then she called me as well.

“I was like, oh, she is probably just FaceTiming me just to tell me how the appointment went, and I answered the FaceTime and she was crying, and I thought ‘oh my god, what’s wrong?’.

“Then, she holds up the ultrasound picture and there were two babies.”

The sisters said it was a complete coincidence that they both fell pregnant around the same time.

Megan and sister Sara always offer each other a helping hand ( Image: Nicole Gwin / SWNS)

The double pregnancies came as a shock to both women ( Image: Nicole Gwin / SWNS)

Sara said: “When I found out I was pregnant, I called her, and I was apologising. I was like, I’m so sorry. Like, because you know I had my first 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦, and this was going to be her first pregnancy.

“I thought she was going to be mad at me, like, ‘you’re stealing my thunder.’

“So, I like, I called her, and I was like, I’m so sorry.”

The sisters said that they loved going through the pregnancy journey together.

Megan said: “Sara was pregnant before me with her son, but when I was pregnant with twins, you know, I was always three months ahead of her.

“So, she would say, ‘hey, what is going on with you? So, it’s normal, yeah.’

“You always had someone to answer questions and kind of relate to, but it was always nice to have her as like, because she just went through a pregnancy, we kind of bounced off each other in different ways, I guess.”

The sisters said it was a complete coincidence that they both fell pregnant around the same time ( Image: Megan O’Brien / SWNS)

The sisters said it has been easy to get used to the new arrivals as they naturally come from a large family, so when they have the whole family around they said the chaos is “pretty normal”.

Megan’s daughters, Lilah and Josie were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 on November 21 2021 at Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Lilah was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 at 1.33am weighing 4lbs 14oz with Josie being 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 a minute later at 1.34am weighing 4lbs 6oz.

Sara said she had a very similar pregnancy to her sister Megan, her first trimester was “awful” with sickness.

She said: “My first trimester was absolutely awful with the sickness. I was sick, but I was like two very, very ill. Yeah, it was not well.

“My second trimester was actually really good. I felt I felt pretty good the entire time. Probably around the same time as Megan like the 30 to 33-week mark, it gets very very painful.

“You know, when you’re carrying twins, you’re basically carrying a full-term 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 at like 32 weeks, because you have more than one in there, So like, it gets very, very uncomfortable.”

Sara’s daughters, Lennon and Parker were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 on February 8, 2022, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Pennsylvania.

Parker was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 at 7.31pm weighing 5lbs 11oz and Lennon was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 a minute later, weighing 4lbs 5oz.

Megan said it has been “super helpful” that her sister Sara is going through the same experience as her.

She said: “It’s not always rainbows and butterflies. There are some hard days. So, you know, especially because we have an outlet in each other – we’re going through the same thing.

“That has been super helpful. It’s a big support for the both of us and then we get to share the funny stories and you know, buy them the same outfit.”

The odds of a woman having identical twins is roughly 250- 1.

However, a woman whose female sibling has had identical twins becomes twice as likely to do the same.

Sources: mirror