Five families are celebrating the same special birthday for their year-old babies. The same doctor delivered all of them in about three-and-a-half hours.

The families and Dr. Leonard Ezenagu remembered that Saturday morning at Luther Hospital fondly on Friday, when the hospital threw a birthday party for the babies.

The five girls, Taylor, Valerie, Claire, Samantha, and Amelia shared memories of that special day a year after the fact.

Some had trouble keeping party hats on, and others showed off some of their first steps.

"It's so good to see the one-year-olds run around, and seeing the babies and how well they've grown, and just to get to see the parents too on a different atmosphere, I guess," said Mandy Schoelzel, who is Taylor's mother.

"She checked out good at all her doctor's appointments, and I've been very good, and healing nicely."

Everyone at the party was still buzzing about what happened on November 22, 2008.

The five girls were all delivered that morning between 3:10 a.m. and 6:45 a.m.

Every delivery was safe and natural. There were no cesarean sections involved.

"The doctor was amazing," Schoelzel said.

Doctor Ezenagu says it was something he had never seen in his more than 12 years of delivering babies.

"In a 24-hour period, in my experience here, if I did five deliveries, I would consider that to be a very busy 24 hours," he said. "So never in my imagination did i expect to do five in such a short time."

The doctor says it was a team effort, and that everyone, including the parents showed lots of patience despite the situation.

"It was just like a normal delivery, but looking back, I think they really did a lot," said Carmen Risen, who is Samantha's mother.

One of the mothers tells us she never even found out about the others after all of them were born. Another said the nurses told her there wasn't a room ready, put up dividers in the waiting room, and kept monitoring her progress until a room was available.

Luther says it delivered a total of seven babies on November 22, 2008.