Four sisters were shocked and overjoyed to find out they were all expecting babies at the same time. The siblings—three of whom are pregnant with their first child—feel “blessed” and are looking ahead to fun-filled family holidays and sharing major milestones.
Jena Primsky, 33, lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband and toddler son, Mason. Ms. Primsky’s sisters Jessica Hanna, 30, and Jordan Sutton, 27, both live in their hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, while their youngest sister, Jaden Lortz, 25, lives in Dallas, Texas.
The sisters all got married within the last five years.
Breaking the big news of their pregnancies to their family, followed one after the other, with Ms. Sutton being the first to share about it.
“I told everyone around Christmastime,” she told The Epoch Times. “I kind of knew Jaden was trying. I had no idea Jena was trying for her second.”
At the end of January, Ms. Lortz told Ms. Sutton about her pregnancy over a call since she wanted to share it with someone else who was in the same phase.
Shortly after, Ms. Sutton and Ms. Primsy took a trip with their parents, and that’s when the mother of one couldn’t keep her pregnancy a secret anymore and shared it with her sister.
“Lastly, Jessica and I live fairly close and we go on walks together,” Ms. Sutton said. “She told me a little bit before Easter; she put a bandana on her dog telling me that they were pregnant. So, at that point, I had all the secrets first, and it was fun but also hard!”
Ms. Hanna, who was the last to reveal her pregnancy, was “just in shock” to find out she wouldn’t be the only pregnant sister after one tough year spent trying for a baby.
“I was trying for so long,” she said. “It was just unbelievable, I didn’t know it was possible that we could all be pregnant at the same time. We always said it'd be so much fun, but for it to actually happen, it was surreal!”
Knowing how hard their sister wanted a baby, Ms. Primsky and Ms. Lortz admitted they were nervous to reveal their pregnancies.
“We just kept praying that Jessica would also get pregnant sometime soon,” Ms. Primsky said. “It was really exciting when it all got exposed at Easter. My parents [Mike and Nancy Thiem] were, you could tell, just giddy and excited. My mom kept laughing; my dad’s like, ‘This is just so awesome.’ ‘We’re so blessed,’ is what they both keep saying.”
At the time of writing, Ms. Sutton is 37 weeks pregnant. Ms. Primsky and Ms. Lortz are both at 30 weeks, and Ms. Hanna is at 23 weeks. The sisters speak daily in a group chat to support one another through their pregnancy journey and make sure to help each other stay fit and healthy.
Apart from that they also revealed that their conversations have included funny and fraught questions: “We‘ll ask, ’Is this feeling normal?‘ and then we’ll go through, like, what we’re craving, what we want to make that week for food, or new maternity clothes that we need,” Ms. Hanna said. “I think it’s nice to go through it with not just one person, but with all four of us.”
Ms. Primsky shared the same sentiment, adding that the whole feeling of being pregnant with the “three people you’re closest to in your life, [is] ... just really amazing.”
“There’s not a day that we don’t talk about it, and it'll just continue throughout the rest of our lives, too, with the new stages,” she said.
With the excitement amongst them brewing, the sisters have also talked about how fun future holidays will be with four cousins of the same age running around. With Ms. Hanna and Ms. Sutton living near each other, they believe that their children will likely attend the same schools.
“They’re going to be going through the toddler stage at the same time, they’re going to be going through the teenager stage at the same time, so we’re going to always be able to relate to each other throughout their lives, which is so cool,” Ms. Primsky said.
The sisters share a close bond with one other and believe that this next turn in their life will develop “a new level of bond” that can’t be imagined until “it actually happens.”
In sharing their special coincidence, Ms. Sutton believes that the bond a family shares is really important.
“You can be lifelong friends with your siblings,” she said. “I think that’s something I'd want people to take away.”
