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Daddies at the double!
HELLO daddy! Workmates Dave Warman and Adrian Symonds show off their new bundles of joy - born within two hours of each other at the Jessop Wing in Sheffield, where their partners were on the same ward.
Dave and Adrian, both aged 26, work together at Newhall School in Millhouses, where Dave heads the behavioural resource unit and Adrian is a science teacher.
They had joked with each other constantly over the last nine months about the possibility of Dave's wife Jenny, 24, and Adrian's partner Megan, 29, going into labour on the same day.
But the new dads never really believed it would happen - until babies Emily Grace and George Oscar both arrived on the same night.
Emily's dad Dave, from Hillsborough, said: "We'd been through ante-natal classes together and had been joking all the way along about the babies being born on the same day. Jenny was due on May 1, and Megan was due on April 30.
"Then when we were at the hospital I got a text message and found out they were just up the corridor." The next morning the mums and tots were in opposite beds on the same ward - ready to greet the dads when they showed up at visiting time.
Adrian, from Crookes, said: "We'd been going on about it at school for months, joking and saying, 'See you at the hospital, mate!', but I don't think we really expected it to happen.
"Then when I turned up the next morning they were literally in beds opposite one another. It was crazy."
Emily arrived into the world an hour-and-a-half before George and weighed in at 9lbs 8.5oz, compared to his 8lbs 14oz.
Both new dads say they are settling into fatherhood and looking forward to their next two weeks of paternity leave from school.
Adrian said: "It's going great so far, and both George and Megan are doing really well."
Dave added: "I'm loving being a dad - even when Emily finds her lungs in the middle of the night. She is perfect."
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