Million-to-one identical triplets dazzle their doctors


	Million-to-one identical triplets dazzle their doctors

arifsali

3-9-2008 2:26 PM

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3-9-2008 8:47 PM

tanyamm

They were born in the same hospital as both of my grandchildren.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53aba4ed-d306-4573-ae7b-29615e4e9b05/E86F52F6-BF1D-41E8-BFA2-CA5DB3889703/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1b7164a6-d838-46e8-aa5b-e1217f452678" href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1b7164a6-d838-46e8-aa5b-e1217f452678" style="font-size: 11px;">www.canada.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1b7164a6-d838-46e8-aa5b-e1217f452678"><P>VANCOUVER - Three tiny, million-to-one, celebrity triplets are making medical history at a Vancouver-area hospital, to the relief of their delighted parents.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1b7164a6-d838-46e8-aa5b-e1217f452678"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.canada.com/img/BE377483-EB67-4C5A-8C15-66759E743584" alt="Daniella Willson holds her mom Thea's finger. Daniella and her identical sisters were born about 10 weeks premature." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1b7164a6-d838-46e8-aa5b-e1217f452678"><P>"They took me into intensive care on my stretcher afterwards and I got to touch them and see them for the first time and that was a really amazing experience," said happy mom Thea Willson of Surrey, B.C. "I want to jump for joy. 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