Meet Aubrey, Madeline and Sophie Pocha, identical triplet girls born this week in Saskatoon.
The tiny sisters, each weighing approximately 4 lbs, are the first natural triplet birth in the city in the last 20 years, according to the Saskatoon Health Region.
The odds of naturally conceiving identical triplets are one in a million.
"It still has to sink in some more," mother Teri-Lynn Pocha told CTV Saskatoon, speaking from the Royal University Hospital after the girls were delivered by caesarian on Monday afternoon. Each baby was born about a minute apart.
"They all look the same. I didn't think they would right off the bat," Pocha said. "The only way you can tell them apart is…if you kind of look at their size really closely."
Teri-Lynn welcomed her new daughters alongside her husband, Andrew Pocha, and the couple's two other children, Ayden, 8, and Ava Rose, 6.
Andrew said they weren't expecting triplets.
"We went into the appointment only expecting one baby in there and when she said there was two, possibly three heads, we kind of looked at each other and we were in shocked," he told CTV Saskatoon.
The proud parents say they plan on painting their new daughters toenails different colours to tell them apart. The girls are expected to remain in the neo-natal intensive care unit for up two weeks.
As is often the case with multiples, the triplets arrived early: Pocha's due date was April 14.
With files from CTV Saskatoon
