A mum who had two miscarriages before getting pregnant for a third time was "shocked" to discover she was having rare triplets.<br /><br />Natasha O'Grady, 34, and and her husband, Ryan, 36, were expecting bad news for a third time when they went for a first scan.<br /><br />All three babies had their own placenta - known as a trichorionic pregnancy - which is very rare.<br /><br />They saw the triple pregnancy as "like we'd got all our babies back from previous miscarriages" and rejected advice to terminate one baby to lower their risks. <br /><br />After a "stressful" pregnancy, Natasha and Ryan welcomed a trio of girls - Quinn and identical siblings Onyx and Maddox - weighing 3lbs each on 5th May 2021.<br /><br />Now three years in, Natasha says they do up to 14 loads of washing a week and when the triplets were still babies they would go through 21 nappies a day.<br /><br />They've even had to change cars and move to house to accommodate their three new arrivals.<br /><br />Natasha, a content creator, from Surrey, said: "When we went in there I couldn't even watch the monitor as I was preparing for bad news. <br /><br />"The lady said 'I don't know how to tell you this but someone up there wants you to be a mum as there's three heartbeats'.<br /><br />"We were shocked and bewildered - it felt like for an eternity we were saying the same thing over again, questioning it.<br /><br />"We went for a walk to clear our heads and they refer to babies born after miscarries as rainbow babies and there was a rainbow at the end of the walk which was bizarre.<br /><br />"The pregnancy was completely natural and two are identical - but they've all got bright blue eyes so none of them look like me!<br /><br />"Until we physically had them here no one thought it was going to happen.<br /><br />"I'm navigating being a first-time mum and a last-time mum and that's been difficult. <br /><br />"I'm learning and that's it - there's no second go. <br /><br />"So for me, it's so hard and I'm constantly toying with trying to survive with three toddlers and time has just disappeared. <br /><br />"But they are three very strong girls."<br /><br />Natasha believed she was miscarrying the very same week she was told to come in for her first scan.<br /><br />She said: "They kept telling me to come in for a scan and I thought we were going to be told bad news again. <br /><br />"I'd been suffering really badly from depression from the two miscarriages and I was still having therapy and it was on the last day of my therapy I found out I was pregnant again.<br /><br />"The doctor told us that we'd be advised to reduce the pregnancy - which is where they terminate one of the babies so the others have a higher risk of surviving. <br /><br />"I knew from the start there was no way I was going to be doing anything like that.<br /><br />"We decided to stick with the three in the end and this felt like we'd got all our babies back from previous miscarriages."<br /><br />On 4th May 2021 Natasha was admitted to Padding St Mary's hospital where she delivered all three babies the following day by caesarean section and they spent two weeks in hospital.
