--- description: The triplets were discharged from hospital after spending five weeks in neonatal intensive care. title: Meet Rare Identical Triplet Baby Girls in Texas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Rare Identical Triplets in Texas Head Home From Hospital by [Cassandra Vinograd and Ali Gostanian / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Cassandra Vinograd and Ali Gostanian / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2016 4:59 PM CUT by [Cassandra Vinograd and Ali Gostanian / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Cassandra Vinograd and Ali Gostanian / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2016 4:59 PM CUT 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… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/houston-s-rare-set-identical-triplets-heads-home-hospital-n490326?cid=par-time%5F20160105 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4167656/identical-triplets-houston-texas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4167656/identical-triplets-houston-texas/"},"headline":"Rare Identical Triplets in Texas Head Home From Hospital","datePublished":"2016-01-05T16:59:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:17.958Z","description":"The triplets were discharged from hospital after spending five weeks in neonatal intensive care","url":"https://time.com/4167656/identical-triplets-houston-texas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Texas","Family"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cassandra Vinograd and Ali Gostanian / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4167656/identical-triplets-houston-texas/","name":"Rare Identical Triplets in Texas Head Home From Hospital"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Outsourcing Surrogacy","description":"Outsourcing Surrogacy","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/iUUpW4Su/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-08-29T18:45:34.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iUUpW4Su.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4167656/identical-triplets-houston-texas/","duration":"PT16M48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4167656/identical-triplets-houston-texas/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```