There’s something in the water in Clover Ridge – or at least one might presume by the caravan of diaper bags and car seats headed into Angie Kubik’s home last week.

In the last six months, 10 babies have been born to women on and around Grimm Road. This was no pregnancy pact, laughed Sarah Heyer, but more of a happy coincidence. The group of moms and kids now try to get together once a month to catch up with one another and see how much the little ones are growing.

“This neighborhood is really tight knit,” said Heyer, mom to baby No. 2 Natalie.

“We’re mommy friends and they’re baby friends,” said Sarah Bot, mom to baby No. 4 Luke.

While some of the women were friends before the baby bumps began to appear, they are now all joined by a common bond of motherhood. Their get-togethers reflect that with plenty of diaper changings, mouth wipings and feedings to go round.

After baby No. 5 Myah was born in January, the moms and moms-to-be started getting together on a monthly basis.

“We’ve really bonded as moms,” said Heyer.

“We need it,” agreed Bot.

Though fellow Grimm Road neighbor Kubik is done having children, she has participated in the group by making each of the babies a special onesie delineating their sex – blue for boys and pink for girls – and their birth number. She had made nine – six pink ones and three blue ones – as of last Friday.

Over the weekend, Kubik got a chance to make her 10th onesie – a pink one for Briella Jones, born March 21 to Brenda Buckley-Jones and Casey Jones.

The rest of the group will look forward to meeting baby No. 10 at their next get-together. In the meantime, the moms are enjoying the time they get to spend with one another now, not knowing when that next meet up might occur.

“Eight out of the 10 of us are working moms,” explained Heyer. “But we want to continue it.”

And if the lack of fussing is any indication, the Clover Ridge babies are in full agreement.

-Mollee Francisco, staff writer

Introducing the babies of Clover Ridge

(Babies below are pictured in order from #1 to #9. Their birth order is listed on their individual onesies with Baby #9 in the 6 o'clock position and Baby #4 at the 12 o'clock position.)

Baby 1: Shane born to Jessie and Kelly Willis on October 27, 2009

Baby 2: Natalie born to Rigg and Sarah Heyer on November 17, 2009

Baby 3: Norah born to Jason and Jen Smith on December 10, 2009

Baby 4: Luke born Mark and Sarah Bot on December 30, 2009

Baby 5: Myah born to Josh and Katy Retka on January 1, 2010

Baby 6: Issac born to Shawn and Kelli Brenny on January 14, 2010

Baby 7: Blair born to Matt and Jolene Breyer on February 1, 2010

Baby 8: Kate born to Mark and Heather Ostlie on February 16, 2010

Baby 9: Kaitlyn born to Dave and Cindy Geiger on March 12, 2010

Baby 10: Briella born to Casey Jones and Brenda Buckley-Jones on March 21, 2010 (not pictured as Baby Briella had not yet been born at the time of the photo)