Dad Cliff was left astonished as the twins were predicted to be born around midnight but the pair didn’t expect both of them to be born in different years.

He said: “We had joked at that point, once we realised that we weren’t going to leave the hospital without babies, that wouldn’t it be funny.”

Mum Kaid added: “We had a couple friends who said the same thing, and then it ended up happening that way.”

Kali had turned up early to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton for some tests on December 29 ahead of her scheduled C-section on January 11.

However, she was admitted to hospital after concerns over her blood pressure.

It was on New Year’s Eve when medics decided to perform her C-section two weeks early – and gave the babies some special landmarks.

The first twin, Annie Jo, was the last baby born in 2022 at the hospital and her sister Effie Rose was the first baby born at the hospital in 2023.

Annie and Effie were born healthy and weighed 5 pounds, 5 ounces each.

Despite the different birthdays the parents are delighted the twins get to have their own identities.

Kali said: “You always still want to make sure they have their own individual personality and know that they are special and unique. So this gets to add to that special and uniqueness that some twins don’t maybe get.

Dad’s Reaction When He Holds His Newborn Baby For The First Time

Every child’s birth is full of emotion, but for parents expecting a rainbow baby, there’s a unique set of overwhelming feelings that accompany the day of their baby’s birth.

Hope and Hunter Madden may have welcomed their baby girl Evelynn in 2017, but the couple had been through a lot, having experienced loss due to miscarriage as well as infertility. Their rainbow baby’s beautiful birth was photographed by Rogers, but more moving than the birth itself was Hunter’s emotional reaction to holding his daughter for the first time.

“This is a story about a mom and a dad who went through loss and persistence to get their baby,” Rogers captioned the stunning photo of Hunter holding his daughter on her Facebook page. “That tattoo on his chest was done after their first miscarriage, and now his daughter lies her sweet head against it. Both of them a reminder of triumph.”