MARYSVILLE – Priscilla Cox never complained about having to share her birthday with her son, Gabriel.

But now she also has to share it with her grandson, Cameron, too.

“I’m doubly blessed,” she said Nov. 10.

Cameron was born Friday, Nov. 6, at the Providence women’s center in Everett. He wasn’t expected to be born on his dad’s and grandma’s birthday. His due date was Nov. 9. But Priscilla said he’d been wanting to be born for weeks. His mom, Jennifer, had been going into premature labor since the 34-week mark.

“But the doctors didn’t want him to come that early,” Priscilla said, so they put Jennifer on bed rest for a few days. She added that Jennifer continued to have contractions and became frustrated saying: “I give up. He’ll never come.”

Well, he did. Priscilla and Gabriel were celebrating their birthdays with a breakfast at I-Hop when Jennifer’s water broke. She went into labor around 11 a.m., and about 11:25 p.m. grandpa Richard Cox started thinking it wasn’t going to happen that day.

A little while later his wife came out of the birthing room with a big smile on her face. It was 11:50 p.m., still Nov. 6. “Oh, my gosh it was exciting,” Priscilla said. Cox agreed: “It’s pretty cool. It’s a rare happening.” Odds are 1 in 300,000, he said.

Priscilla was born in 1962, and Gabriel was born at Swedish Hospital in Seattle in 1992.

Cox said they didn’t even think Gabriel would be born on the same day because his due date was much earlier.

“It was prolonged and prolonged, and it went on and on and on. It was quite a long wait,” Cox said.

Then baby-Cameron was distressed so they had to helicopter in a specialist for an emergency operation. Gabriel was born at 4:30 a.m. Nov. 6.

Priscilla said it was great sharing her birthday with her son.

“I never felt pushed aside,” she said, adding she and her husband would always celebrate her birthday separately and make Gabriel’s birthday special.

“We had huge parties,” she said, adding when he got older he wanted them to open gifts together.

“Now we can have big parties for our grandson,” Priscilla said. “I don’t know how we could ask for anything more.”

She tries to see Cameron every day.

“You never stop being a mom, even with grandkids,” she said.

Cox said he’s not worried about any of the three missing out on their birthdays.

“My birthday’s the week before Christmas. I’m the one who always got shortchanged,“ he said with a laugh.