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On a recent Wednesday morning, Nicole Bodey sat with a smile beneath a warm blanket in the Cancer and Infusion Center at Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital. Her husband of 57 years, Bud Bodey, sat by her side, as he always does after driving Nicole from their Springfield, Missouri, home to the hospital for her newly approved innovative infusion treatment for early stage Alzheimer’s disease.

Think of the word “infertility,” and you might picture a couple without children struggling to get pregnant or stay pregnant. But there is another set of people — those who have successfully conceived and given birth to one or more children — who struggle with infertility, too.

The statistics are devastating: Sudden unexpected infant death is the No. 1 cause of death in babies age 29 days to 1 year old.

Some sisters imagine what it might be like to have and raise their kids close together. Few, however, get to experience giving birth to their babies on the exact same day, at the same hospital, delivered by the same doctor. It sounds like a fictionalized movie storyline. But for two St. Louis sisters, this was their reality.