1 in 64 million chance: Iowa family welcomes triplets after tragedy
JOURNEY TO A FAMILY OF SIX. KELLY AND NICK BRIGGS WERE SO EXCITED TO WELCOME THEIR FIRST BABY. THEYUT P THIS CRIB AND ANNOUNCENTME TOGETHER BEFORE THEIR FIRST ULTSORAUND WHEN WE HAD OUR FIRST SCAN THEY SDAIH, O AND I COULD TELL THAT THE TECH. THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG THEY FOUND OUT RIGHT THENND A THERE KELLY HAD HAD A MISCARRIAGE, BUT THAT’S NOT ALL SHE SAID. YOU KNOW WHAT? IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS TRIPLETS BUT THERE I’M ONLY SEEING ONE HEARTBEAT. THAT ONE HEARTBEAT NOW THEIR WHOLEOR WLD THEIR SON. CHASE WAS ON THE WAY F MORE. IT WAS I’M SO HAPPY THA IT HAVE THIS ONE, BABY. BUT I LOSTWO T LIKE JUST KEPT IMAGINING THESE THREE LITTLE KIDDOS. WOULD THEY BE GIRLS BOYS? I JUST DIDN’T KNOW SO IT WAS HEARTBREAKING TO THINK ABOUT THE WHAT WOULD BE AND THEN ALSO BEING HAPPY ABOUTHE T WHAT IS THEIR MIRACLE BABY IS NOW A THRIVING TODDLER, BUT BEFORE THAT TODDLER TURNED ONE THE BRIGGS FOUND THEMSELVES IN FAMILIAR TERRITORY WHEN THE ULTRASOUND TECH STARTED DOING THE SCAN ON MY BELLY. WE JUST LOOKED AT EACHTH OER. WE SAW THE THREE SACKS. WE NEW INSTANTLY WET JUS BOTH STARTED LAUGHING. YEP. CHEAS HIT THE SIBLING JACKPOT TRIPLETS AGAIN THE CHANCES OF NATURALLY GETTING PREGNANT WITH TRIPLETS TWICE. EON IN 64 MILLION. WE ALWAYS GET ASKED IS DID YOU BUY A LOTTERY TICKET? UM, NO, WE DENY IT. WELL, WE GOT NUMBER ONE HERE. THOUGH A HUGE RELIEF TO HREA ALL THREE HEARTBEATS THIS TIME. THERE WAS STILL A DIFFICULT ROAD AH EAD MY HEART KIND OF SANK BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT THAT ALREADY FELT LIKE. AN ID DIDN’T WANT TO GET ATTACHED TO HIM. I DIDN’T WANT TO GET TOO EXCITED TWO BOYS AND A BABY GIRL WEER DUE APRIL 30TH, BUT THE BABIES. OTHER PLANS AND ARREDIV EARLY AT 32 WEEKS. WHAT BTHIR AIDEN WAS THREE POUNDS 15 ISAAC WAS THREE POUNDS 12N I ADELINE WAS THREEOUND P SEVEN MEETING SPECIAL CARE AIDAN ISCAA AND ADELINE WERE ALL TAKEN TOHE T NICU. I JUST KEPT SAYING I JUST FELT LIKE I W IASNCOMPLETE UNTIL THEY ALL GOT HOME ONE BY ONE EACH KIDDO GRADUATED. NOW EVERYONE IS HOME LIFE IS BUSY WITH A FUR, BABY. DAN FOUR KIDS UNDER TWO SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE A CIRCUS GOT THE BIG BEGINNER AND THEY MAY BE LITTLE BUT THESE THREE COME WHIT A LOT OFFF STU THREE CRIBS THREE ROCKERS THREE CAR SEATS. I NEVER THOUGHT I WAS GONNA BE A MINIVAN DRIVING DAD. BUT HERE I AM AND TSEHE CUTIES ALSO GO THROUGH 30 DIAPERS A DAY FILLING THOSE DIAPERS. SO WE DO THIS BOTTLE PREP TWICE PER DAY SO MANY BOTTLE. MOM PUMPS IS MUCH MILK AS SHE NCA BUT THESE THREE DEVOUR A CAN OF FORMULA A DAY, WHICH SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF A FORMULA SHORTAGE IS DAUNTING ON NEOSHOOR, WHICH IS LIKE THE SPECIALTY ONE FOR PREEMIE BABIES, AND THAT ONE IS SUPER DIFFICULT. YOU CAN’’ FIND IN STORES ANYWHERE A LOT HAS BEEN THROWN AT THIS YOUNG FAMILY, BUT THEY’VE WELCOMED EACH CHALLENGE WITH OPEN ARMS AND OPEN HEARTS. I’M JTUS BEING A MOM EVERYBODY EVERY MOM WOULD DO THE EXACT SAME THING. YOU JUST RISE TO THE CAJUN. AND YOU TAKE IT WHERE IT COMES? I’M HAPPY TO REPORT ALL THREE BABIES RECTLENY HAD A TWO-MONTH CHECKUP, AND THEY’RE DOING GREAT. WHEN I ASKED MOM AND DAD ABOUT HOW THEY PLAN TO SAVE FOR COLLEGE. MOM LAUGHED SAID THE KIDS ARE ON THEIR OWN
1 in 64 million chance: Iowa family welcomes triplets after tragedy
Updated: 5:30 PM CDT May 24, 2022
An Ankeny couple has hit the family jackpot.Kellee and Nick Briggs got the surprise of a lifetime when they found they were pregnant with triplets in 2020. However, in that same ultrasound appointment, they found out two of the three babies weren’t going to make it.After experiencing that heartbreaking loss and healthy birth of their son Chase, the Briggs family found out they were pregnant again with triplets. The chances of that happening naturally twice are 1 in 64 million.”It really felt like it was a second chance. So, I felt like I was so robbed of the experience the first time when I lost the first two with Chase. And then it just like God meant for this to happen to us and we got it again and it worked out beautifully this time,” Kellee Briggs said.KCCI’s Alyx Sacks tells this incredible story of a family of six overcoming the odds.Other headlines:
An Ankeny couple has hit the family jackpot.
Kellee and Nick Briggs got the surprise of a lifetime when they found they were pregnant with triplets in 2020. However, in that same ultrasound appointment, they found out two of the three babies weren’t going to make it.
After experiencing that heartbreaking loss and healthy birth of their son Chase, the Briggs family found out they were pregnant again with triplets.
The chances of that happening naturally twice are 1 in 64 million.
“It really felt like it was a second chance. So, I felt like I was so robbed of the experience the first time when I lost the first two with Chase. And then it just like God meant for this to happen to us and we got it again and it worked out beautifully this time,” Kellee Briggs said.
KCCI’s Alyx Sacks tells this incredible story of a family of six overcoming the odds.
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