A BOLTON mum is overjoyed after her two daughters gave birth to babies on the same day in the same hospital.

Anne-Marie Neagle's and Joanne Easy's babies were due to arrive five weeks apart but they confounded all the odds by giving birth at Bolton's Princess Anne Maternity Hospital.

Anne-Marie's baby was due on December 10 but 4lb 13oz Shannon Ivy put in an early appearance after being taken to the hospital early on Tuesday morning.

And shortly afterwards 24-year-old Joanne was rushed from her home in Bennetts Lane, Halliwell, to give birth to 4lb 8oz Andrew Carl.

Shannon Ivy was put in an incubator in the Special Care Baby unit but both babies and mums are said to be well.

Andrew Carl was born at 10.50am and Anne-Marie, aged 27, of Rawson Road, Halliwell, give birth at 2.40pm. Proud grandma, Maureen Egan, of Thornham Drive, Bolton, said she was both delighted and relieved at the remarkable double birth.

She told the Evening News: "I am very excited and very relieved that it is all over and I think my daughters are as well. They were in rooms next to each other and were worried about one another. "Staff at the hospital could hardly believe it had happened because it is so unusual for two sisters to give birth on the same day in the same hospital."

Both dads, William Neagle, a car parts manager at a garage in Manchester and Carl Easy who works at D and S Foods in Bolton are also delighted at the happy event.

William said: "I am absolutely made up and I was amazed that the babies were born on the same day."

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