According to DailyMail.Co.Uk, When Karen Gilbert learned she was pregnant with extremely rare identical triplets, she was stunned and delighted.
But, she said, doctors took a different view of her one-in-200million pregnancy and twice gave her an option to terminate it. They feared the three foetuses could take each other’s fluid and space and might not survive.
Later in the pregnancy she was told she could choose to keep only one or two of them. But Mrs Gilbert and her husband Ian were determined to have their three little girls. Now Ffion, Madison and Paige – who were born two months early on August 2 – have come home from hospital.
Mrs Gilbert, 32, said: ‘The pregnancy has taken its toll but now I’m taking my time to recover and get to know my three beautiful girls.
‘The doctors thought it could be up to three months before we could bring them home so we feel privileged to have them here with us.’
Mr Gilbert, a 34-year-old business manager, said: ‘We couldn’t consider termination – they were ourbabies. They were scanned every week to make sure they were growing fine.’
Identical triplets occur when one egg splits in three, a one in 200million chance without IVF say experts. The couple from Pontypool, Wales, also have an older daughter Faye, aged three.
But medical professionals feared the rare birth and lack of space inside the womb could see thebabies killing one another potentially killing one another.
‘They were concerned about twin to twin syndrome, when the babies take each other’s fluid or space and starve or cramp each other,’ revealed their father.
‘Because they are identical, they all share the same placenta and the same fluid.
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