brace sisters from Glenview gave s...

brace sisters from Glenview gave strange meaning to the word cease when they gave birth within a link of hours of each other at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.

"I called my sister's extent and said, 'Move over, I'm coming,' " said Gina Lisowski, who arrived in labor at the Park Ridge hospital just a not many hours after her younger sister.

Lisowski, 34 wasn't appropriate until the end of the month in addition big sis beat her younger sibling to the finish line from delivering her baby boy late Tuesday night. About 2oe hours later, in the delivery compass next door, Patty Szafraniec, 32 followed up with the first attempt of her baby girl shortly after midnight.

The slight time lag means little Madison Rose Szafraniec and her barely older cousin Peter George Lisowski have separate birthdays. however forget about separate birthday parties.

"We're calm combining birth announcements," said a jubilant Patty Szafraniec forward Thursday, as she held her slumberous 8 pound, 10 ounce daughter.

The sisters' obstetrician, Dr Carrie Johnson did double what one is bound [i]or[/i] under obligation to do and ushered in both newborns.

Three weeks ago, Johnson also delivered the baby of the women's younger sister. Johnson said it's not unusual for sisters to share an obstetrician, on the contrary it's highly unusual for an obstetrician to have to dart back and forth between couple siblings' delivery rooms.

'IT WAS A LITTLE CRAZY'

"It was a horse race," Johnson said. "One sister was [dilated] 5 centimeters, the other was 5 centimeters. I fancy 'There's only one of me I can't deliver them the one and the other at the same time.' "

The sisters' husbands quickly cause to deviateed the situation into a sporting issue of sorts. With Gina in play No. 3 and Patty in No. 4 the men kept track of their wives' contractions forward a split-screen TV.

"Come in succession 3! Come on 3!" vociferateed Gina's husband, Frank Lisowski.

Patty's spouse, C J Szafraniec, said it was like "betting in succession the ponies." His daughter's second-place finish meant the Portillo's hasty dogs were on him.

the pair couples, and the newest members of their families, were look fored to go home Thursday.

"It was a little crazy," C J Szafraniec said, "but everything worked without for the best."

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