Parents shocked by twins on New Year's Day

Every New Year’s Day the first baby born in any community is usually nicknamed “The New Year’s Baby” and he or she gets to keep that title forever. This year, the first Akwesasne baby born was Trent Diabo who arrived at 3:46 p.m. to mom Margaret Jock and father Blake Diabo. Trent wasn’t expected to arrive until late January but when Jock showed up to the hospital in labor that morning, a nurse heard two heartbeats instead of just one.

“She thought it was an echo at first,” said Jock, 27.

Jock had started feeling labor pains the night before but said she brushed them aside until the next day. She went to the hospital just before noon and before she knew it, she was looking at an ultrasound screen showing two babies were inside her womb.

“I didn’t know whether to cry or not,” Jock said recalling her shock. “We didn’t even have the first one’s name picked out yet.”

Trent weighed 6 lbs. 5 oz. and when his brother Trevin was born a few minutes later, he weighed in at 7 lbs. 2 oz.

While most parents would be shocked just to hear they’re having twins, Jock and Diabo’s two little ones already at home made the surprise even more surprising. Oldest brother Blake was born on Jan. 16, 2009. Less than a year later but almost to the day, the next brother Jayden arrived on Jan. 14, 2010. Then, in the same year, Jock thought she might be pregnant again and in August learned she was in fact expecting and was already five months along. The twin boys arrived a few months later to share a birthday month with their older brothers and to make Jock and Diabo the proud parents of four children age 1 and under.

Although one twin kept his hiding spot a secret, mom Jock had a harder time hiding her unusually large pregnant belly.

“People did say ‘Wow, you’re all belly,” she said. “I did notice I was carrying differently.”

Later in the pregnancy Jock began noticing herself how large her belly had become and she said so to her doctor in December. She had one ultrasound done three weeks before the twins arrived but doctors were concentrating on determining Jock’s actual due date and they never noticed a second baby. Another ultrasound was scheduled for January, and doctors gave her an estimated due date of Jan. 28.

Instead, the healthy boys made their debut on New Year’s Day to become “The New Year’s Twins” and a welcomed addition to their family. Proud grandparents are Alvin and Marion Jock and Tassie Rourke.