We are not usually surprised by identical twin births, but having identical triplets is a one in a million event. The Harris triplets, namely Addison, Kinsley, and Savannah were discharged after staying for a month at the neonatal intensive care unit of Houston's Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital.
Stephanie gave birth to the triplets, all of them hitting the weighing scale from three to three and a half pounds on Dec. 1, 2015.
The father, Brad, said they were prepared for the multiple births, but he was just starting to prepare himself being outnumbered by his little girls. During the first prenatal examination, they thought they were only expecting identical twins, but later on, they were shocked by the news that they were welcoming identical triplets, as posted on KHOU.
Many are still confused how it is possible to have identical triplets. According to Medscape, the incident of having triplets is one in every 7,000 to 10,000 births. Multiple zygotic pregnancies also vary in relation with the use of Assistive Reproductive therapy, maternal age, and ethnicity.
Multiple pregnancy has a number of complications tied it. Complications include gestational hypertension, anemia, birth defects, miscarriage, an abnormal amount of amniotic blues, cesarean delivery, and postpartum hemorrhage.
Babies born from multiple-gestation pregnancies have a higher risk of acquiring complications but the mortality and morbidity rates on multifetal pregnancies have decreased due to optimum neonatal care during delivery and provision of an ideal intrauterine environment for fetal growth during pregnancy.
Monozygotic type of multifetal pregnancy will result to having identical births. This means that the fetus shares the same sac and DNA or genetic information. It happens if one egg is fertilized by a sperm cell and the zygote that has been developing has divided. These occurrences happen in the very early stage of fetal development.
