Full ultrasound of spontaneous triplet boys.
All in their own amniotic sacs. Because the first ultrasound was taken so late, it was not certain whether any shared chorionic sacs - the doctors went back and forth on whether the two smaller babies were together or not. So it is possible the smaller two are identical twins (we think so), but not absolutely certain.
(In all subsequent ultrasounds we identified the babies by size - A being the biggest, B medium, and C the lil guy. So that is how I refer to them, but it's not necessarily how they're labeled in this ultrasound.)
By 16 weeks, the smallest baby had developed hypotrophia due to insufficient cord flow - basically he had a crummy part of the placenta and was starving - and was not expected to survive to viability. We had weekly monitoring by ultrasound and I was admitted to the hospital at viability (24 weeks) so they could administer steroids and deliver when necessary.
Praise God he held on until week 28. We delivered via c-section at 28+1 to save his life. Baby A weighed 1050g (2.3lbs), baby B 950g (2.1lbs), and C 680g(1.4lbs - the size of a 24-week baby!). At one week, baby A had a grade 3 brain bleed on one side, but it passed on its own. All three needed blood transfusions several times. A and B spent 2.5 months in the NICU and came home the day after their due date; C stayed an extra two weeks to recover from hernia surgery.
11 months old now and healthy, praise God!
*Any and all rude or pro-abortion comments will be deleted. I lived through this pregnancy and do not want to hear about "choice". Zero tolerance for trolls*
