Two Cedar Rapids sisters spent Thursday, Oct. 22 in labor at the same time, and less than half an hour apart, each welcomed a baby boy. Brandy Meisheid delivered her son, Myles Joseph, at 5:48 p.m., and her sister Allison Sweeney delivered her son, Kohen James, just 29 minutes later at 6:17 p.m.
Neither birth was supposed to happen that week. Meisheid, who serves as a Linn County supervisor, wasn't due until Nov. 13, according to KCRG. Doctors ended up inducing her early, and Sweeney's baby arrived ahead of schedule too, even though Sweeney wasn't due until Halloween.
Sweeney's labor moved fast once it started. Her water broke at 4 a.m. Thursday, and she headed to the St. Luke's Birth Center by 9 a.m., per The Gazette. From there, the timing lined up almost perfectly with her sister's.
Side-by-Side Deliveries at St. Luke's
The Gazette reports the sisters' delivery rooms were side-by-side at the St. Luke's Birth Center in Cedar Rapids, with both women in labor simultaneously. The two newborns ended up sharing an Oct. 22 birthday just 29 minutes apart.
Meisheid has said she and her sisters had long hoped to be pregnant together, and this fall's back-to-back deliveries weren't the family's first overlap this year. The sisters' other two siblings, Taylor Campbell and Rachel Manternach, gave birth within three days of each other in June, roughly four months earlier, with their babies born in adjacent rooms.
The Quad Squad Comes Home
With all four babies now born, the family has taken to calling the group the Quad Squad. The two youngest, Myles and Kohen, came home from the hospital Saturday, and the family is happy and healthy.
Stories of sisters timing their deliveries so closely together tend to draw national attention when they surface. NBC10 Philadelphia reported on two Pennsylvania sisters who learned they were pregnant days apart, shared a due date and ultimately welcomed daughters on the same day, while People reported on a separate pair of sisters who gave birth to sons within five hours of each other at the same hospital despite due dates three days apart. Good Morning America has also chronicled identical twin sisters who called it surreal to give birth on the same day in the same hospital.
For the Cedar Rapids family, the latest arrivals cap off a year that already included one close-together sibling birth in June. With Myles and Kohen now both home, the four cousins born in 2026 give the sisters a full set to show for a year of overlapping due dates and shared hospital hallways.
