When Vickie and Curtis Eberle of Prairie du Sac, Wis., woke up Monday morning, they were planning a day of celebration for the second birthday of their fraternal twins, Gideon and Delilah.
When the couple, both 29 and married for eight years, went to bed Monday night, they were the new parents of a second set of twins, also fraternal, and also a boy and a girl, Emmanuel and Bibiana.
The almost too-unbelievable-to-be-true coincidence is, indeed, true. The Eberles, the parents of three older children, have two sets of fraternal twins born on the same day, exactly two years apart.
"I knew it was a possibility that they could be born that day but I also knew I could not go into labor that day and have them after midnight," Vickie Eberle said of her first reaction when her water broke Monday morning, nearly one month ahead of her Feb. 26 due date.
"In the back of my mind I thought, 'It would be really cool,' and I was kind of hoping for it," she said. "But when push came to shove, I was just focused on getting through the labor and having them come out healthy."
