It is very rare, it happens once every 200,000 million births.
Coincidentally last year there has been a similar case of a British mother who gave birth in Austria to identical triplets and for more inri, identical quadruplets were born in Canada in the same month.
Unlike those twice, that the girls were conceived naturally, Logan, Eli and Collin, the three babies born last Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital in Long Island have developed from an embryo implanted by in vitro fertilization.
It is very common that there are cases of multiple pregnancies through IVF since two or three embryos that can become one, two or three babies usually implant in the uterus, but it is really very strange that they develop three healthy babies from a single embryo.
The mother, Allison Penn, was implanted with a single embryo that was divided into two parts and then one of those parts was again divided into two, forming three embryos with the same genetic identity. Hence, they are called identical triplets, although the right thing would be to call them twins (term that applies to both two, three or four).
Although it has been said that it is the first case of identical triplets born after in vitro fertilization treatment, we have evidence of an equal case that occurred in 1999 at the Quirón clinic in Barcelona.
A very common mistake in these cases is to say that babies are so equal that they cannot even be differentiated by their fingerprints. That is false. Each person has their own unique and unrepeatable fingerprint. We have already explained on one occasion how fingerprints are formed in the baby.
Clarified this, congratulations to triple parents who only intended to fulfill their dream of having a baby.
