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2008年6月26日 星期四

Australian grandmother gives birth to triplets 澳洲祖母產下三胞胎

An Australian grandmother has given birth to naturally conceived triplets, hospital officials said Tuesday.

Janelle Perry, who turns 47 next week, delivered the three boys by caesarian section at Mater Mothers' Hospital in the east coast city of Brisbane last Thursday.

"I can confirm there are three boys, they are potentially identical triplets," a spokeswoman for the hospital told AFP.

The arrival of Cooper, Kyle and Jordan brings Perry's brood to eight -- including four children in their 20s from an earlier marriage and a four-year-old daughter, Rebecca, with her husband Robert.

The grandmother of two told Brisbane's Courier Mail that she and Robert had tried for two years to conceive again but had given up hope after a doctor told them they had only a five percent chance of becoming pregnant naturally.

"We thought, 'Oh, well. It'll probably never happen'," she told the paper.

But youngest daughter Rebecca kept hoping for a bigger family.

"Rebecca kept telling me in November, 'You've got three babies in your tummy, Mummy -- one for me, one for Dad and one for you'," Perry said.

"I thought, 'No way' and told her, 'There's no babies in there'. Then, in December, I found out I was pregnant."

Perry's husband, a crane operator, has taken one year's leave to help her look after the triplets but the new mum said she would be challenged by looking after the boys.

"I'll probably have to use different coloured nail polish on them to tell them apart," she said.

"I don't want to get them mixed up."

David Molloy from the Queensland Fertility group said the chance of having identical triplets at the age of 46 was "probably the same as winning Gold Lotto." (AFP)

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