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Babies Born to Wives of Brothers at Winthrop

Wives of brothers David and Nick Pereira give birth 82 minutes apart Wednesday.

Normally, a pair of babies being born at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola is an everyday occurance. What is not so ordinary is when they happen to be the children of a pair of brothers and born within 90 minutes of each other.

Brothers David, 36 and Nick Pereira, 35, were both in the labor and delivery room at the Mineola hospital at the same time Wednesday morning as their wives were giving birth.

Winthrop spokesman Edmund Keating says Nick Pereira’s new son Nathaniel entered the world at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday weighing 8 lbs, 5 oz. David’s daughter was then born at 10:37 a.m., weighing 7 lbs, 15 oz.

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That morning, Nick, who lives in Plainview, sent a text message to his older brother David, of Locust Valley, saying he was at the hospital because his wife Beth was ready to deliver. He then received a response back from David that he was already at the hospital because his wife Claudia was also ready to give birth. The two are now first-cousins.

“My response was ‘Are you serious?’ I thought he was kidding. I mean I thought he knew I was here already, but it was a nice surprise,” Dave Pereira said to 1010 WINS.

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