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Threeimorefun/says mother of tripletsCathy Krogmeier has her hands full—and loves every minute of it—with one-year-old triplets Chad, left, Jennifer and Travis.By Sandy Williams News Staff WriterThree little stockings, identical in size, are ready for Santa’s visit to the Mark Krogmeier home south of Mt. Pleasant this year They belong to Travis, Jennifer and Chad— the Krogmeier triplets.On Dec. 10, 1973 CathyKrogmeier was told by her doctor that there would be more than one baby—and the first x-ray indicated there would be four A second x-ray showed three and the triplets were born one week later, a month premature. Travis was born first, weighing in at 4 pounds, 12'a ounces. Jennifer, born second, weighed 4 pounds 3'2 ounces and Chad, 4 pounds and 12 ounces.What’s it like to have triplets? If you have the attitude Mark and Cathy Krogmeier share,it’s great. As Cathy says, “one’s no fun, two’s fun—three’s more fun.’’ And Mark adds, “It must be dull to have just one baby ’ The triplets stayed at the hospital until they weighed five pounds—two weeks after Cathy was dismissed. And when they came home, she was ready withall the necessary equipment andanxious to have the babies with her.Both grandmothers—Mrs.Corwyn Walker, New London and Mrs. Ron Kilbourn, Mt.Pleasant—helped. Cathy haddecided to take care of the children alone, allowing thegrandmothers to help with housework and cooking. But, as Cathy says now, the novelty wore off before long and she was happy to have all the help withthe house and the triplets.And Mark helped, as he still does—so did the grandfathers and great grandmothers Mrs. Frank Krogmeier, Ft. Madison and Mrs Lena Fritzjunker, St. Paul.Cathy soon had the routine established. Bottles werepropped, diapers changed while the babies drank and everyone back in bed in a half hour. The triplets were sleeping through the night by the time they were six weeks old and Cathy has kept them on a fairly regular napping and eating schedule since. Equipment has been provided as gifts or borrowed from friends and family and Cathy has learned to manage. She can even, if necessary, shop by herself, with one baby in a back pack, the others in a twin stroller.Cathy makes most of the triplets’ clothes plus her own She likes to dress the children in matching outfits and has found it difficult to find two boys’ outfits alike and in the same size-impossible to find matching outfits for two boys and a girl. She already has her Christmas present for this year—a sewing machine—and has already turned out one set of matching outfits.As far as the Krogmeiers are concerned, there are many advantages to being parents of triplets—one of them being that the children keep each other entertained instead of hangingon Mom.The Krogmeiers live in a double trailer with three bedrooms and have room enough for the present but(jetting a sneak preview of the contents in their Christmas stockings are Chad, left, Jennifer and Travis Krogmeier,Mark, who is in the tool and die apprenticeship program at Heatilator Fireplace, plans to build a house near their present fiome within a few years—and there will probably be a little more room figured into the plans.Triplets— at least those who, like the Krogmeier triplet, arenot identical—are not inherited.Cathy has been told. And she was not taking any kind of a fertility drug. But she has also been told that if they choose to have more children they can expect another multiple birth.So are they planning morefamily?“I’d like to,” says Cathy, “but with the cost of raising a family being what it is—we don’tknow.”What’s it like to have triplets?^For the Krogmeiers—who sit unruffled and smiling^ as threelittle ones scramble up the back of a chair to play with the lightswitch, try a few tentative steps or head for the kitchen table with a gleam in their eye that means climbing to the top— it’s fun.
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Mount Pleasant News
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 20, 1974
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