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Couple Has Rare Identical Triplets on Wedding Anniversary
I’ve heard of silver, gold, even cotton and paper for the wedding anniversary. But Amanda and Matthew Faher gave each other three big gifts for their third wedding anniversary – rare identical triplets.
All boys (remember, they’re identical), the babies were born in a Pittsburgh hospital to the Fahers, both attornies on Sept. 30. Amanda was thirty-three weeks along when doctors decided to take the boys (delivering in room 1233 – another cool numerical twist) because she’d developed pre-eclampsia.
Although multiple births are becoming more and more common, the kids are by and large fraternal, making the Fahers’ case extremely rare. One egg splitting into three is considered a one-in-a-million (or should that be three-in-a-million) chance. The couple told the media they did not use fertility drugs for conception.
But they do have multiples on either side of the family.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Matthew Aaron, Nathan Brady and Michael Christopher all weighed around five pounds, and mom and babies are doing just fine.
Image: Tribune-Review
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Ali commented on Oct 08 09 at 2:36 pmHow do they know they are indentical? Did they do a DNA test?
PlumbLucky commented on Oct 08 09 at 3:26 pmShared sac/placenta perhaps? Very cool for them though!
Bec commented on Oct 08 09 at 4:06 pmIt was my understanding that multiples born from fertility-assisted conception were always fraternal, because the treatments encouraged the release of ovum. I’m just curious now… is it also known to increase the likelihood of identical multiples?
PlumbLucky commented on Oct 09 09 at 8:13 amDont’ know, but the couple says that they did not use fertility drugs.
Bec commented on Oct 09 09 at 10:04 amYeah, I saw that… it’s just that it was mentioned AT ALL got me wondering.
Blacksheep commented on Oct 09 09 at 1:09 pmActually, they have noticed a higher than average tendency for the fertilized egg to split in IVF, but not IUI. Sometimes you will see triplets who are a set of identicals and a fraternal (a pair and a spare!) with IVF. But this couple did not do fertility treatments.
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