A mum of triplet toddlers has detailed their strict daily routine which included up to four loads of washing, 30 nappy changes and 30 feeds - with her pumping three litres of breast milk. Tanya Hall, 33, and her partner, Kris, 44 who both work in research and development, conceived her identical triplets naturally at 200-million-to-one odds in April 2019 and had a difficult pregnancy.
At 19 weeks Tanya had to undergo laser syndrome surgery - where a laser is used to disconnect the blood cells on the surface of the placenta. It was because two of the triplets were diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) - a rare but fatal condition where the babies share just one placenta meaning one baby receives an overload of bloodflow and the others not enough.
Defying the odds, the babies were born six weeks early at 31 weeks on 26th April 2019 at Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre, Burnley, Lancashire. Little Austin arrived first at 8.50pm weighing 4lbs 1oz, Rupert was next at 20.52pm weighing 2lbs 11oz and Ethan was born last at 8.54pm weighing 2lbs 9oz.
