Rare Identical Triplets Born

[icyfroth]

Extremely rare identical triplets have been born in California to a couple who conceived naturally.

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Wow what a woman!

[darksideofthemoon]

That's incredible isn't it icy.  A division of three from the one ova/sperm union!   I have read about it before.  Seems that the first division makes twins and then the there is a third division from one of the twins that makes the third baby.

We have identical twins in the family but identical triplets... just imagine in a few years time when they realise they can pass eachother off as 'the other one'    They could have heads spinning.    hahaha!

[purple_haize]

Just had a look at them......conceived naturally, how wonderful for their parents and yes Darki, it is incredible.

Hope all goes well for them....

[polksaladallie]

The probability cannot be pinpointed because of the rarity.

Fertility treatment would produce only the one ovum to split, so that would be rare also. 

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=identical+triplets&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9eqgUvvNK4T...

One of the women in this link is the DIL of Philip McGraw

[lobs211]

Identical twins freak me right out - I cant help lookin at em and thinking 1 of you shouldnt be here...........

They scare me LOL

Now imagine if I saw triplets ha ha ha!!!

[icyfroth]

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@darksideofthemoon wrote:

That's incredible isn't it icy.  A division of three from the one ova/sperm union!   I have read about it before.  Seems that the first division makes twins and then the there is a third division from one of the twins that makes the third baby.

We have identical twins in the family but identical triplets... just imagine in a few years time when they realise they can pass eachother off as 'the other one'    They could have heads spinning.    hahaha!

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'tis indeed amazing, darki, the miracles nature can make happen.

I always wanted to be twins, I think my parents were glad I wasn't

[bluecat*dancing]

My paternal grandfather was a twin as was my paternal grandmother, so, I might have been a twin. lol.

[debra9275]

My OH is an identical twin. Though he and his brother don't look a lot alike they always know when someting is going badly for the other brother. They get a feeling...  it's a bit weird really lol

[***super_nova***]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Fertility treatment would produce only the one ovum to split, so that would be rare also. 

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I cannot play the video?

I always thought that the reason why fertility treatments are producing multiple birth is because the woman produces several eggs, or more than one embryo is being implanted, not because the embryos are splitting.

But multiple early embryos are possibly much more common than we think, because we do not know they were there if some stop growing in the early.  My daughter had a scan very early in the pregnancy; she was so excited and wanted one immediately and her doctor did one as soon as she was pregnant enough to show something.  And it showed twins; few weeks later one was doing fine but the other did not grow.  The doctor was not surprised or concerned.  Considering that multiple birth always carries lot more risk to the babies and the mother that was probably for the best.  Although at that time we did feel sense of loss.

[darksideofthemoon]

Well these triplets were by ordinary conception super, so nothing to do with fertility treatment.

Of course it can happen with fertility treatment as the ova and sperm can still do its own thing once it is fertilized.

My family tends to run to twins every second generation and according to my grandfather who was a doctor and father of one of the sets of twins, he was pretty sure I was a twin, but the other one didn't make it.  Seems I have a lump on my colar bone that is all that is left of what would have been a twin... no, I can't explain it any better than that and sadly, he's dead, so he can't now either.

Interesting isn't it.