When the Going Gets Tough, Just Think Triplets!

on October 19, 2008 at 12:38 PM

It's Sunday and I'm pooped. Uh-oh. I've had help all weekend and tomorrow's Monday and I'll be on my own again. Being tired is not a good way to start the week. Then I think of Kerry Lyons and her husband Desmond. A few days ago, the New York couple brought identical triplet sons home from the hospital. Although the incidence of multiples has become more common because of infertility treatments, identical triplets are still a rarity. Some scientists estimate they occur in as few as 1 in 100 million births. When I think about how exhausted the Lyons must be, I feel a little better. I've always wanted twins and they run in my family on both sides, but triplets seem like another realm altogether (not to diminish the hard work all you Baby Mamas of twins put in). Would you like to have three at once?

About the author Suzanne Murray

is the Parenting & Political editor at The Stir/Moms Matter 2012.

Filed Under: multiples, newborns

Comments (3)

workenmom

on Oct 19, 2008 at 10:09 PM

i don't know but i too always wanted twins, i wanted them as my first children one being a boy and the other a girl so i'd have on of each. now i have two boys (not twins) but i still want twins but this time both girls so i'd have two of each. but triplets maybe.

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edwinasmom

on Oct 20, 2008 at 11:57 AM

When I found out I was pregnant with DD, I was SCARED TO DEATH of multiples! I knew darn well how much work one baby was (having helped to raise younger siblings due to a large age gap between us) and multiples run on both sides of BOTH of mine and DH's families. *gulp!* Happily we got one and my hands are "just" full enough, thank you VERY much. Best wishes to parents of mulitples though! May they get the rest they so desperately deserve and need!

gkm15099

on Nov 8, 2008 at 11:53 PM

I do have three at once and as much as I love my girls, I would have given anything to have them one at a time. I worry all the time that I don't give them enough one on one time, enough attention and teaching them as individuals. It is so hard, but if you asked me this question on a week I've slept, I might answer differently.