By Carly Fisher
Round Table reporter

 Middletown High School English teachers Melissa Bolt and Becky Larson not only work at the same school, have coached  the MHS cheerleading squad  together  and have been great friends for years. So when students and staff learned that their due dates were only a few weeks apart, it seemed as nothing out of the ordinary for the two.

At the beginning of the school year, Larson and Bolt were both seen with  small baby bumps. Larson was due in the end of Dec. and Bolt was supposed to be due in the beginning of Jan.

As if their pregnancy wasn’t ironic enough, both teachers went to the the same hospital, and ended up giving birth on the same day. Larson was thrilled when she found out that she had a baby girl, whom she named Avery Grace. 

Avery Grace was 7lbs. 4oz. and “super cute,” said Larson.

Bolt had been planning to have a cesarean section on Jan. 3; however, when she went in for a check-up on Dec. 22 she found out that she would be having her little boy the next day Tyce Bolt Lushbaugh was born on Dec. 23, at 9:29 a.m. Tyce was born a few weeks earlier then expected weighing in at 6 lbs. 1 oz,.

 One thing Bolt wanted was for her baby was for him to have  a unique name. She knew that she wanted her maiden name, Bolt, to be his middle name in memory of her father.

 “We wanted something that was uncommon, yet short and sweet.” said Bolt.

As for Larson, the gender of her child was unknown, so the Larsons’ went to the hospital with both boy and girl names picked out.
 “There was no specific reason for her name, but we wanted something that was somewhat out of the ordinary, interesting, and yet still cute.” said Larson.

As new moms, both Bolt and Larson took time to prepare themselves for the new additions to their families. Both being first time mothers, prepared by taking feeding and infant CPR classes to make sure they could be ready for anything in the future.

They were both thankful that they received multiple baby showers, so many of the necessities needed with kids were given to them as gifts.