Philadelphia-area sisters welcome daughters who were unexpectedly born one day apart

A Delaware County family is celebrating its second birthday – sisters and their babies with a special connection. Lankenau Medical Center has a long history of caring for many generations of families and now one more is being added.

Delaware County sisters have young daughters born just hours apart at Lankenau Hospital, where Alysha Orsine works as a labor and delivery nurse.

Her sister Mackenzie Root just gave birth to her baby Celine on October 7th.

Their due dates were nine days apart, but once Celine arrived, her cousin Lylah, Alysha’s baby, decided to come early.

“Nine hours into my shift, my water broke,” Orsine said. “It was crazy because I was really busy at the start of my shift.”

Lylah was born on October 8th.

“It’s crazy. We joked the whole time that I thought, ‘Oh, what if they were born on October 13th and 14th because we’re 13 and 14,'” Orsine said.

Alysha is six years older than her sister, but, like her daughters, their birthdays are just a day apart.

“The whole time I was pregnant and she was pregnant, she thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be so crazy if we had kids on the same day or a day apart,'” Root said.

Mother Nature agreed and delivered both babies early.

“Yeah, they want to be best friends, I guess,” Root said.

Like their mothers, the cousins ​​will celebrate birthdays together throughout their lives.

“We have already started getting them as appropriate Christmas items,” Orsine said.

Reflections of mirrored destinies, sisters with their precious babies and sweet dreams of a fun future.

Root and Orsine say their other children are similar in age, as are some cousins. They say that family gatherings will be especially festive.