Inspirational story of the world's most premature triplets

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Hi, my name's Michaela
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I'm the mum of the record-breaking triplets, Ruby Rose, Peyton Jane and Portia Mae
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Found out when I was 19 weeks pregnant at my first scan, that I was pregnant with triplets
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and had them three weeks and five days later at 22 plus five days
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So it was mental. The whole journey between finding out that there were triplets and then triplets actually being
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here was, I think, the quickest pregnancy I've ever known. So, yeah, it was mad
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The day of the birth was very traumatic, to be quite fair. I went into hospital on the Saturday, early hours
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ended up at spending the night up in St. Michael's Hospital, went after midnight to self-mead and then went into labour
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But leading up to that, that was very traumatic because obviously she wouldn't come out. I didn't feel the baby
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I was contracting, but the baby wasn't coming out. Eventually she did come out
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and then yeah she was in a little sack bless her like she was so tiny I was scared
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obviously in the process of that whether she was going to be bravely or not
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but yeah very traumatic for me we had I think it was about
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22 different nurses and doctors in the room at the time there was four for each child
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and obviously Kayla had her own medical staff there as well looking after her
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Ruby Rose was born at 1021 if I remember remember correctly. Taylor was rushed down to the operating theatre under an emergency C-section
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And then at 1201 and 1202, the girl's born. So Ruby Rose was born first, weighing 467 grams
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Peyton Jane was the second born, and she weighed 42 grams. And then Miss Portimae was born third
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and she was weighing 416 grams if I remember So immediately when they were born I didn see any of them when they were born They basically just rushed them over They had a little incubator so they basically led them in the incubator put them in a little it like a sandwich bag but a little sleeping bag thing
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And then obviously let them breathe for their self. As long as they breath for their self for like 10 seconds
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they were happy to, obviously, intervene with oxygen and things like that. They did say the first 72 hours was critical
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because obviously they were born very early and they didn't know the outcome whether they would survive the 72 hours
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So the first couple of days I was up there, all the time with them because I was worried the fact that obviously whatever one won't make it
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The only issue we had was Portia May had a bleed to the brain on her
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I think it was on her left side. The NICU journey on its own, any parent has been through it
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whether it was two days or as we were 216 days. It's one of the hardest journeys you'll ever go through
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To see your child there helpless, you can't help them. You don't know what they're going through
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You're relying on the medical team. When they got released from NICU
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before that, they had an MRI scan just to make sure everything was generally all right
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and they had something white brain matters or something in their brain
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so basically that's the sign of, obviously, cerebral palsy. I think Portia had it worse
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and then obviously Peyton was just under Portia with a cerebral palsy
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Ruby Rose is very mild so that could mean like learning difficulties
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or trouble walking a little bit when she's older we don't know the outcome of how bad
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it's going to be for them obviously at the moment two twins Portia Mae and Pink Jane
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are in ex-pander chairs because they don't physically move that all they do is like move around
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side to side or they can move their arms and legs but they don't put any pressure on them
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they don't hold herself up like we have to do literally everything for them
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as in obviously move them put them on the floor it's not like Ruby where she crawls around
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she's nearly walking she does basically everything that she wants to do by herself Painting and Porsche don have that So obviously we have to put them in the special chairs to help with their support And then they also have a standing phone which we have to obviously put them in
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to help with their strength and their legs. We've quite, as I said, we're quite lucky with our medical team
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They literally get anything that they need. Obviously, it's not easy. It can be very, very hard
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And it can be quite challenging at times with all the appointments that you have to go to, people coming in your house
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doing physio and things like that with the girls on a day-to-day basis, we have to obviously move their limbs, arms and things like that
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So yeah, it was very, very stressful the first year that they were here. So when I found out I was pregnant at 19 weeks, we was above a pub that we were still currently living at
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lost our jobs due to COVID. She couldn't afford to keep us on. So we were living there temporarily until they evicted us to go through the council
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The pressure that was ended up with obviously evictions and things, I think it might have been stressed that maybe bought my waters on
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and no one knows why I went to labour that early. I say it was a tough kind of year for us
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in that kind of respect of losing our home and going in a temper accommodation and things like that, yeah
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Carry that now. They don't recognise that they're being fed. They also don't recognise when they're full or when they're hungry
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So because NGQ babies don't generally realise when they're hungry, so they're due every three hours
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but if they could go four or five hours and still not be crying
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Yeah, so if they were in hospital and they'd have to starve them for say 12 hours, they'd be five
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They go 12 hours. They would literally go the 12 hours and not cry or anything like that. So..
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It can be really, really challenging for anyone with disabled children, logically
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But obviously me and my partner, Jay, obviously just crack on and just do what we need to do really for them, to be honest
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They can't do it for themselves, so obviously we have to do. to do it for him. So yeah
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But if it wasn for Kay and how amazingly strong she is she was my support And it sounds stupid I should be her support but 110 she was my support
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I had postnatal depression and stuff like that. So she was there for me through the whole of that
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And then later on in Peyton's life, and we had to do CPR with Peyton
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I developed PTSD on that. My mind can't file what happened to the day
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because I basically see Peyton Gray. she was dead. So having to bring her back was the bit that keeps replaying in my head
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I'm having panic attacks. I've got, I wake up at night, either screaming or crying or anything else like that
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So Kay's there. She supports me through all that, bless her up. I wanted to be there for a lot of dads
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because there's not a lot of help for dads, especially in the NICU side of it
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Postnatal depression isn't really recognised in dads. The, and the whole experience for a dad
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can be very alienating. It's just awareness and for people that have gone through it
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and people that may go through it, to know that it's not, you're not aliens
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you're human beings and we've all gone through it. And if you're feeling a bit down at times
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we're here for you. Well, we used to spread awareness. obviously that we've had triplets
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and that they can survive. Obviously what they've got now is completely different to what they had
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probably five years ago. They've got a lot more now to help children that are born so early
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And we just spread the awareness and obviously keep everyone updated. They love seeing the girls on TikTok
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They absolutely adore it. Kayla is, she's wonder mum. She is absolutely amazing
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I love her to bits. Words can't say how proud I am of that woman. She is amazing

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