Monika Tano welcomed her second daughter Aurelia yesterday in Birmingham just under seven hours before the baby princess was born.
It was the second time the 35-year-old has given birth on the same day as Kate with her first child, Liliana, born on July 22, 2013, the same day as Prince George. But while Kate was waited on by a team of world class doctors at the Lindo Wing in St Mary's Hospital, Ms Tano had a more testing time.
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After going into labour in the middle of the night, the mother of three gave birth on the floor of her living room with only the baby's father there to offer a hand.
Paramedics arrived shortly after baby Aurelia's birth at 1.47am to take both mother and baby to hospital for monitoring.
While celebrating the birth of her second daughter, Ms Tano heard the news that the Duchess of Cambridge had gone into labour.
'It is a huge coincidence, I just can’t believe it.
'At about 3am I was sending pictures of Aurelia to people and then at 7am I started getting messages from people saying Kate was in labour.
'I was still in hospital and checked the news on my phone and couldn't believe it when she had her baby daughter too.'
Ms Tano gave birth to her second child, Liliana, on the same day as Prince George was born in 2013.
With Kate's due date for her second baby previously thought to be April 25, the Polish national, who gave birth a week early, was shocked when the princess was born yesterday.
'Aurelia was born exactly on 39 weeks and was due next Saturday so was a week early and I believe Kate’s baby is a week late so I never thought it would happen again.
'When I got pregnant, people joked that it could happen but we thought it was so unlikely we forgot all about it.
'It feels amazing to have two children who share royal births, it is just fantastic.
'It will definitely be a story for my two little girls to tell all their friends when they are grown up.'
Bookmakers Ladbrokes said the mum had beaten incredible odds of 1,880,000/1 to give birth to two kids on identical date to the Duchess of Cambridge.
David Williams, from Ladbrokes, said: 'It’s a mind boggling coincidence. The odds almost broke the calculator. We’ve never heard of anything like it.'
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