MUMS-TO-BE on a maternity ward might be forgiven for thinking they are seeing double.

That’s because 22-year-old Rossendale twins Sarah and Lindsay Dodds have both started as midwives in the same department.

And the inseparable duo, who attended St Paul’s Constable Lee Primary School in Rawtenstall and Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School in Waterfoot, said their similarities had already caused some problems on the ward.

Lindsay said: “People often think that they’ve met me before and will talk to me as though we’ve already had a conversation.

“We try and warn people to be aware that we have an identical twin in the same hospital.”

Since leaving the Valley, Lindsay and Sarah have graduated from Northumbria University with matching First Class Honours degrees and now started in the same job at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.

Lindsay said: “When we were making our career decisions in school we started thinking about what we wanted to do and we both independently decided to go into midwifery.

“We did the same GCSE and A Level subjects and both passed with slightly different grades but exactly the same number of total points.

“We both applied for jobs at the RVI and were delighted to find out that they were taking us both on.

“They’ve kept us slightly separated, I’m on the delivery suite and Sarah works in the antenatal department.”

Sarah said: “Lindsay and I have always wanted to do something in health care since we were in school.

“I love working as a midwife, I enjoy the fact that you’re dealing with people in one of the happiest times of their lives.

“Every day at work you are part of a couple’s special event.”