Sammi Edes lives in Melbourne, Australia. At the age of 29, she thought she would have twins, but…
On a routine ultrasound, doctors discovered that she would have triplets. They were amazed when they saw a third heart beating. Equally surprising was the fact that doctors did not discover this earlier because the triplets, as it turned out in a detailed analysis, shared the same placenta.
Although she was advised to abort the third baby because it could have endangered the lives of her and the other two children, the mother, who planned to raise them alone, decided to keep her “surprise”.
The problem was that the doctors believed that one or two might not have survived because they had failed to feed on the same placenta.
Sammi decided that she could not play God and that everyone needed a chance to live. Ten weeks later, three boys were born: Hunter, Geoffrey, and Thomas.