EXPECTANT grandparents Ronnie and Annette McNeish got the news they were waiting for this week – it’s a girl (and a boy, and a girl….) The astonished couple’s three daughters-in-law all delivered healthy babies on consecutive days this week.

First to arrive was Cara Annette, at half past three on Monday afternoon, swiftly followed by Kyle Lewis, in the early hours of Tuesday morning and, not to be outdone, Lois Anna appeared at 11 o’clock on Wednesday morning.

Proud grandad Ronnie, 61, beamed: “When they told us they were all expecting, we knew the due dates were around the same week so we joked it would be funny if the babies came on the same day or one day after another.

“We couldn’t believe it when we got the news – I think Annette aged about three years with all the worry as one after another went into labour.”

He smiled: “But we are both absolutely over the moon.”

Cara Annette and Lois Anna were both born in Glasgow, while Kyle Lewis was born in France.

“My daughter-in-law, Anne Sophie, is French and she went home with my son Steven to have the baby there,” explains Ronnie.

“We can’t wait to see them when they get back in a couple of weeks.”

In another strange coincidence, a family in the same street as the McNeishes are also celebrating the birth of two new grandchildren, to separate sons, on the same day.

“Must be something in the water,” laughs Ronnie. “The two boys grew up with our boys, so it’s an incredible coincidence they have all had children at the same time.

“It’s lovely that all the cousins will be so close in age and grow up together.”

Ronnie and Annette –who have another three grandchildren (Amy, five; Freya 4, and two-year-old Luca) have visited their other two sons, Stuart and Gordon, and their wives Donna and Linda, as they recover in hospital.

“We have just doubled our grandchildren total in the space of 44 hours,” laughs Ronnie, who runs a picture-framing business.

“We all live close to each other and regularly get together – but I think we might need a bigger dining table now….”