The chances of an embryo splitting into triplets are “extremely rare”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A Singaporean couple are celebrating Chinese New Year with a miracle of life they did not anticipate when they embarked on assisted reproduction in 2019 – triplets born from one frozen embryo, giving them the big family they had dreamt of having.
While triplets are already very rare, what is more astonishing is that only one embryo had been implanted in Dr Low’s womb through in-vitro fertilisation . The couple, who married in 2014, began to try various fertility procedures, such as intrauterine insemination and IVF, after a few years of marriage failed to produce a child.
“I asked: ‘Is it triplets?’ The doctor said yes,” Mr Chua said. “With triplets, it is a whole magnitude of difference in terms of challenges.” Two of the triplets were monochorionic twins, identical twins who share a placenta, an organ that delivers nutrients and oxygen to the foetus. Dr Sim said one of the complications of this is that one of the twins or both could experience suboptimal growth.
Since the triplets were born, the couple have hired two confinement nannies and one domestic helper, and their parents are ready to help babysit.
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