Meet the miracle triplets home in time for Christmas - after arriving two months early and spending five weeks in hospital.<br /><br />Little Emil, Ava, and Alba Wise, now six weeks, were able to finally leave the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth after arriving at 32 weeks on November 1.<br /><br />Their proud parents Hannah Gurney, 36, and her partner, Chris Wise, 38, a sports broadcaster, had planned a c-section at 34 weeks but Hannah went into labour a fortnight early.<br /><br />Ten hours later, they welcomed Emil, Ava, and Alba - weighing 3lbs 3oz, 3lbs 2oz and 3lbs 1.5oz respectively.<br /><br />After spending five weeks in intensive care gaining strength and growing, the babies were discharged on December 5, 2023.<br /><br />Hannah and Chris have now brought their triplets home and are ready to spend a quiet Christmas as a family of five.<br /><br />Hannah, head of media at Action Aid, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, said: "It was amazing to find out I was pregnant with three babies.<br /><br />"I did struggle at the beginning, it took a long time to get my head around the fact that there would be three babies in my stomach.<br /><br />"Physically it was really difficult at the beginning, then I felt really good within myself in the final few weeks.<br /><br />"Their due date was originally Christmas Day but there was no way we would have been able to deliver them on time.<br /><br />"it is absolutely amazing to have them home, it was so emotional bringing them out of the hospital.<br /><br />"It is so hard to have them in NICU and to have them here we are finally getting to know their little personalities. <br /><br />Hannah was visiting her parents, Mike, 76, and Vicky Gurney, 74, in Castel, Guernsey, when she found out she was expecting and called Chris to tell him the news.<br /><br />Once Hannah got home, she did another pregnancy test to be certain.<br /><br />Chris said: "I got a call at 6am, it was amazing.<br /><br />"Hannah was coming back that day and we did another test to make sure it was as it seemed.<br /><br />"We had been trying for two months, but it had been something more than a year in the planning to get to the point where we knew we wanted to become parents."<br /><br />At eight weeks, the couple decided to have a private scan as Hannah's parents were visiting and they wanted to tell them in person that they were going to be grandparents.<br /><br />They also were keen to break the news to Chris' parents - Mary, 65, and Mark Wise, 64.<br /><br />During the scan, the sonographer's hands started to shake and Hannah and Chris immediately thought the worst but she revealed the pair were expecting triplets.<br /><br />Hannah said: "We didn't know what to expect at the scan - it felt like the specialist was taking ages.<br /><br />"When the sonographer stopped she turned to us and she was shaking, we were expecting bad news.<br /><br />"She had never been in the position before that she found triplets, it was a big moment for her and an even bigger moment for us.<br /><br />"I had a nervous laugh, I started laughing right away. She turned to the screen and pointed out the different places where the babies were.
