Identical triplets are born
Posted March 5th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.cnn.comTriplet births are fairly rare as it is, but one circumstance only happens — according to one pediatrician — once every 200 million births: identical triplets. Normally triplets are fraternal (3 eggs involved), or a mix of identical and fraternal (one egg that splits plus another egg).
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) — When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first news conference. But it’s the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now.
The identical triplets were born Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island — an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births.
Other research says it happens once in every 60,000 births — wow, some real accurate number reporting going on there, guys.