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»-»1 '-/“I-By David W Trozzo — The CapitalJBfiy Moms and hi* wJf«, Sua Wilkin*, of Annapolis hold thafr newborn triplets, bom Saturday. Taking a break from virtually NHJttd*the*elock feeding are, from left, 2evf Art and Ell as Mg sister Sarah, age 3, peeks over her mom's shoulder.Couple delivers triple playJ By MARY ELLEN LLOYD Staff WriterAbout the only way Sue Wilkins can tell her sons apart right now is the hospital bands.Fraternal triplets Ari David, Eli Bettfamin and Zev Jacob Moses were born within 20 minutes - at 4:39 p,m., 450 p.m. and 5:01 p.m., respectively - on New Year’s Svfc, just In time to give their parents three additional deductions for the tax year._ They are the second through fourth gttftmUor Ms. Wilkins and her husband. An? Muses, a pair of attorneys whoinstantly outgrew their three-bedroom home in Annapolis..So far, I can’t tell*them apart Ms. Wilkms said. 1 know one of them has darker ham.”The 34-year-old mother on Tuesday was between a tag-team feeding and loading the triplets into side-by-side car seats in the family’s new Buick Roadmaster wagon to leave the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.'‘They have three different blood types, so that's how we know they're fraternal, Mr.-' Moses said. They're ail in perfect shape.”Doctors don’t attribute the trio to fertility drugs, and they were born without a Cesarean-sectkm delivery—unusual m the world of mulitiple pregnancies, hospital spokesman Jill Bloom said.Roughly one in 6,000 to 7,000 natural pregnancies results in triplets. One in 80 natural pregnancies results in twins.The hospital sees multiple births more frequently than typical odds, however, because it is set up to handle such high-risk deliveries,(See'TRIPLETS, Page AI2)
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Capital Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Fri, Jan 06, 1995
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