After spending five weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit of a Texas hospital, Stephanie and Brad Harris' identical triplets are finally home. The three baby girls, who have been named Addison, Savannah and Kinsley, were born on Dec. 1 via cesarean 10 weeks before their due date, according to People. Their birth weights were between three and three-and-a-half pounds each.
The Harris couple first thought they were having twins, but a follow up visit to the doctor showed that Stephanie was actually carrying three babies. "I was shocked and still trying to get over learning we were having twins when we got news of triplets," said the mom, according to NBC News.
Now cleared and released by the hospital after their birth, the triplets' parents are relieved but overwhelmed. "We are prepared," said dad, Brad, via CBS News. "I'm just way outnumbered now."
"We got ankle bracelets, and we're going to color coordinate them," Stephanie said. "Hopefully, we don't get them mixed up."
The Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital in Houston where the babies were born noted that the chance of having identical triplets happens in 1 in 60,000 pregnancies to 1 in 2 million pregnancies, according to the NBC report. Last year, four other sets of identical triplets were born in the United States, including a set of boys who were born in New York in September, according to New York Daily News.
