1/2 Steve with baby Nena-Mae and Sam with baby Jordan.
The 70-year-old Harrie van Buul became a grandfather and great-grandfather in one day. On August 3, both his granddaughter Nena-Mae and great-grandson Jordan were born. Both babies were born in the Bernhoven hospital in Uden. “That I can still experience this”, said the proud Harry.
How it is? Harry has two sons. One son, Steve van Buul, has now had daughter Nena-Mae with his partner Jessica (38). Harrie’s other son already had a daughter, Sam van Buul (21). That is the granddaughter of Harrie and she and her partner Paul now have son Jordan.
“I can only be proud”, says Harrie several times. “It is very beautiful!” Even the fact that he is a great-grandfather, he finds special. “You don’t often experience that either. But it’s me now.”
Nobody expected that his daughter-in-law Jessica and granddaughter Sam would give birth on the same day. Jessica was due on August 12 and Sam on July 31.
“Jessica’s waters had broken on August 2, so she was in the hospital on August 3. That same day my contractions started,” says the new mother Sam. “I immediately thought: it won’t be? But they were really contractions.”
“You can only have it in one day.”
When Sam’s contractions started, the Van Buul family was already in the Bernhoven hospital because of Jessica’s delivery. “So the whole family was already complete when I went to the hospital,” laughs Sam.
Harrie: “I was in the hospital because Nena-Mae was born, when my granddaughter called me. She said her baby was also born. That was a surprise, yes.” Nena-Mae was born that day at 12:40 PM and baby Jordan at 7:48 PM. “You can only have it in one day,” said a smiling grandfather and great-grandfather.
A unique situation, according to Bernhoven’s staff. “They said in the hospital that it had never happened there before,” Sam knows. “We never expected this either.”
According to her, the new mothers and their newborn children are doing well. “Everything is going great.”