A rare set of identical triplets (above) were born in Texas
on Saturday. Silvia Hernandez and Raul Torres (inset) welcomed babies Catalina,
Ximena and Scarlett a few days earlier than they had expected and just minutes
apart at Corpus Christi Medical Center, with each girl weighing the exactly
4lbs 11ozs. That was not the only surprise either, as Ximena and Scarlett
(right) are conjoined at the pelvis.
'We’re good,' Torres told ABC News as his wife recovered from
her cesarean section.
'The two babies are going into surgery right now. They're
going to check their liquids to see that nothing's blocked up.'
While triplets have become more common with the rise of
methods such as in vitro fertilization, having an identical trio naturally,
where one egg is fertilized and splits into three separate embyros, is rare.
One in a million is commonly reported as the odds of having
natural identical triplets, and only one in six triplet pregnancies result in
three babies of the same sex.
Conjoined twins meanwhile occur once every 200,000 live
births, and of those only about 35% survive beyond the first day.
This means the odds of having naturally conceived, identical
female triplets with two of the babies being conjoined is around one in
50million.
Dailymail report
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