Call it a delayed Christmas miracle: rare identical triplet baby girls were discharged from a Houston hospital Monday and headed home after weeks in neonatal intensive care.
Stephanie and Brad Harris initially were told they were having twins, but a subsequent doctor’s visit revealed a third heartbeat.
“I was shocked and still trying to get over learning we were having twins when we got news of triplets,” Harris said in a statement.
Addison, Kinsley and Savannah each weighed between 3 and 3.5 pounds at birth when they were born Dec. 1 via cesarean section at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital.
The odds of…
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