It was a baby boom at Medcenter One Wednesday.

Five babies were born to two mothers within eight hours. It started with triplets born to Nicole and Jeff Enzminger, of Bismarck. Later in the afternoon, Courtney Crane gave birth to twin girls.

It's the first time Dr. Peter Woodrow, who delivered the babies, has delivered two sets of multiples in one day. He has been a doctor since 1974.

Crane hadn't expected to give birth Wednesday, but back pain had her coming into the hospital, she said. After some tests, doctors decided to give her a Caesarean section.

Brynn and Macy each weighed 4 pounds, 15 ounces and were 181/2 inches long. For all their identical characteristics, it will take a blood test to determine if they are identical. Incidentally, the girls also share the same birth time, 3:19 p.m.

They are the first children for Courtney, 29, and her husband Jeremy, 30. They live 15 miles northeast of Bismarck.

"It'll be fun to watch them play together," Courtney said.

Having twins came as a bit of a surprise. There are no twins in her or her husband's families, and she wasn't taking fertility drugs, she said. She found out at six weeks that she was having twins because she had been feeling ill.

They decided to find out the gender of the babies before they were born, and it gave them a chance to decide their names.

"I'm bad at mixing up names," she said. "It could not sound alike; it could not start with the same letters or with the same letters of immediate family."

The Enzmingers had a planned Caesarean section today, hospital officials said. Their children were all boys. Nicholas was born first, at 7:26 a.m., followed by Benjamin, at 7:27 a.m., and Joseph, at 7:29 a.m. Nicholas was 3 pounds, 10 ounces and 171/4 inches long; Benjamin was 4 pounds and 181/4 inches long and Joseph was 3 pounds 2 ounces and 16 inches long.

Their mother, Nicole, was not available for comment Wednesday.

The Crane and Enzminger babies are in the neonatal intensive care unit.

(Reach reporter Sara Kincaid at 250-8251 or sara.kincaid@;bismarcktribune.com.)