26-year-old British Katie Crow, being the mother of a beautiful son, could not have imagined that the second pregnancy would bring her three babies at once. The young woman learned about such a massive replenishment during screening at the 12th week of pregnancy.
“Take a deep breath I see three hearts,” the doctor stunned. To say Kathy was shocked is an understatement. She became pregnant naturally, and there were no prerequisites for multiple pregnancy.
But then Katie did not yet know how unique her case was. Typically, two eggs are fertilized during triplets. One of the eggs splits, forming two embryos. As a result, two twins and one not quite similar baby are born.
But Katie’s three babies were identical, so they were born exact copies of each other. This happens only once in 200 million births.
With multiple pregnancies, delivery is considered normal at 32 weeks.
Katie gave birth on the 30th. The contractions began, and the doctors performed an emergency caesarean section. Operation was successfully completed. Katie gave birth to three boys. Joshua and Eddie weighed 1.4 kg, and baby Tommy weighed 1.2 kg.
The babies turned out to be so similar that Katie and her husband Rob had to temporarily leave hospital name tags on the little ones’ arms. Parents simply did not distinguish between their children.
