Nicola and Kevin Brightey struggled to have children for a decade and a half. However, these days, they have a bit of a full house.
With their two boys James and Daniel, and baby Elizabeth, the couple who thought they would never become parents are living out their dreams. However, when Nicola tells people her three children are triplets and not a set of twins and a younger daughter, their jaws drop to the floor.
"Elizabeth looked identical to the boys when they were born — they all looked like three peas in a pod," she says. "And people can’t believe it when I tell them that they are triplets."
Now, we've seen twins born months apart before, but we've never seen triplets born five years apart. It sounds completely impossible. Although, thanks to modern medicine, it's been the solution to Nicola and Kevin's empty nest.
See how this medical miracle gave Nicola and Kevin the family they've always dreamed of below.
Nicola and Kevin Brightey tried to have children for 15 years. Due to a medical condition as a teenager, Nicola was unable to conceive.
"I had peritonitis at the age of 15 and doctors told me that it had caused extensive scarring on my fallopian tubes," Nicola told Daily Mail. "It meant that I couldn’t conceive naturally, which was devastating, so I knew that the only way that we would ever be able to have a baby was to have IVF treatment."
After saving up thousands of dollars, Nicola went through her first round of IVF without success. However, during her second trial, she produced 14 eggs. Eight of the eggs were fertilized and two were put back into her womb. The rest were stored. Nicola became pregnant.
“It was so emotional when they were born and when I was holding them in my arms, it was the most amazing moment. After all those years, we were finally parents at last," she says.
A few years later, the couple thought it would be good for the two boys to have a younger sibling.
"We really wanted to try for another baby and we thought that it would help the twins' social skills if they had another sibling to consider," she says.
Nicola had another embryo placed in her womb — the twins' triplet sister.
"Elizabeth looked identical to the boys when they were born — they all looked like three peas in a pod," she says. "And people can’t believe it when I tell them that they are triplets."
"The boys have really taken Elizabeth under their wing. They adore their triplet sister. They have such an incredible strong bond between them, but they have let Elizabeth in there, too," she says.
Nicola is ecstatic to finally have the big family she's always dreamed of.
"For years I never thought that we would ever be parents, and it has been such a long battle to have our triplets. I feel like the luckiest mum in the world," Nicola boasted.
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