everybody has a story
Stephanie Gomez: Our parents had our brother Jonathan first. They tried for six years before they had us. They just wanted another child, so it was a big surprise when triplets came along, especially because it was in the days before IVF.
Nicole Gomez-Doan: Growing up, Dad always thought having triplets was hereditary because there are two sets of twins on both his and Mum’s side of the family. But reading up about it later, we found out it’s not hereditary. It’s actually just by chance that one egg gets split into three.
Mum had to be hospitalised for extra monitoring from five months into her pregnancy because having multiples was so unusual at the time. We were prem – she had us at
