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The story of a family who had triplets in 2022 without IVF, although the doctors said that there would be no children | 74.ru

A woman could not get pregnant for a long time, and then she gave birth to triplets

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Vladlena and Andrey Boboshko from Tyumen could never even imagine that they would become the parents of triplets. The couple dreamed of having at least one baby. But for a long time they did not succeed. Vladlena had already come to terms with the fact that she would not become a mother, but a week before the wedding, the doctors stunned her, reporting a multiple pregnancy. And at first, doctors suspected that in the stomach of our heroine there were not even three, but four babies. Before you hear this amazing story from our colleagues at 72.RU, we note that Vladlena did not do IVF.

The couple was preparing for the wedding when they found out that they would soon become parents

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Vladlena had long wanted to become a mother, but because of health problems, doctors did not encourage her. They said that most likely nothing would work. But the woman herself did not leave the dream and was looking for new doctors. So she met a doctor, about whom mothers say: “Yes, after him everyone gets pregnant. ” He prescribed hormonal therapy for the patient and gave some recommendations. During the next scheduled appointment, Vladlena came for an ultrasound scan, but several fibroids were found in her. The woman was upset and decided not to try to get pregnant again. And she resigned herself to the idea that she would not give her future husband children. Beloved, seeing the suffering of Vladlena, supported her.

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— Then suddenly I started having health problems. There were signs of pregnancy: nausea, aversion to food, and so on. But even after that, I didn't think I was pregnant. After all, I recently visited doctors and they said that, unfortunately, this is impossible, ”says Vladlena. - One fine morning, when I felt bad again, it dawns on my husband: “Honey, you’re pregnant!”

Vladlena denied it at first, but then decided to take a pregnancy test. One showed a positive result, the other did not reveal anything, and the third was with one stripe and a small manifestation of the second.

— It was all on the eve of the wedding. We decided to have an ultrasound just in case. Well, suddenly the test showed a false pregnancy? This kind of thing happens too. We went to the clinic after work. Vladlena went to the examination, and I stayed in the car. She was gone for about an hour and a half. And immediately thought that yes, pregnant. After all, if not, they would immediately let her go! - Andrey Boboshko, the husband of our heroine, says with a smile on his face.

Vladlena got married while pregnant. On the day of the wedding, she had a terrible toxicosis. But this did not spoil the holiday, because a miracle happened in the couple's life

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— I was on an ultrasound, and the doctor said: "I see three eggs." I thought about everything, but not about pregnancy. Then everything was explained to me. The doctor also couldn't believe that everything had worked out. The ultrasound went on for over an hour. I remember how I was lying, and tears were flowing down my face, ”recalls Vladlena. - The medic could not catch the angle the first time to count all the kids. She began to count them: "One, two, three ... And what is this, is it really the fourth?" And at that moment I got scared and prayed that she was wrong. And in the end, there really were three children.

Vladlena recalls that she was afraid to go out to her husband. It took me a long time to find the words to tell him the good news. As a result, with tears in her eyes, she handed over an ultrasound picture.

Three dots were drawn there. I thought that it was just photographed, and I began to imagine, I said to Vladlena: “Is this a head, arms and legs?” And she replied that it was like triplets. Words cannot express how happy I was, - Andrey Boboshko said. - On this day, I went to my friends to celebrate, because I was very happy. And the beloved remained at home crying, she was very excited.

— I was very afraid of my husband's reaction. I was in shock myself, - Vladlena laughs. But he was just blown away with happiness. I have never seen him so happy in my life.

Vladlena calls her pregnancy the most terrible period in her life

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The couple's parents reacted to the news of the triplets in different ways. In order not to immediately shock future grandparents, Vladlena and Andrey first said simply about pregnancy. And only then they clarified that there would be three grandchildren at once. The husband's parents were delighted and immediately began to plan how they would help a young large family. But Vladlena’s mother at first jumped for joy and clapped her hands, and then sat down in a chair and said: “Poor daughter, how sorry I am for you.” The woman realized that Vladlena would not be easy in the coming months, and therefore took pity on her.

And my grandmother's expectations came true. It was really hard for Vladlena throughout her pregnancy.

— My whole pregnancy was very difficult. Therefore, I had an idea: I would sooner give birth, and that’s it. Doctors told me: "You will remember this golden time." But this is not the golden age. This is a terrible time! Lately, I've barely moved at all. It seemed to me that the pelvis would crumble. I remember walking to the bank, which is next to the house. If you walk in a normal state, then the road will take a maximum of five minutes. But while I was pregnant with triplets, five people managed to approach me, they wanted to call an ambulance. Because it was so hard for me,” recalls the Tyumen woman. - I slept for two hours. The belly was just huge. They even bought me an air mattress so that I could roll over comfortably.

Most of all Vladlena was afraid of premature birth. And on March 30, 2022, she came to the hospital for another examination. The doctor noticed severe swelling in the woman. As the heroine herself describes, her ankles were swollen. And so she was immediately sent to give birth. Everything happened so quickly that Vladlena only had time to write a short SMS to her husband.

She was taken to the delivery room and had a caesarean section. And after 15 minutes, two boys and a girl were born in the perinatal center.

— It was impossible to pull, because there was a threat to one of the kids, — Vladlena explained. - They gave me an injection, I didn’t feel how they cut my stomach. But when they began to get the children out of there, I screamed in hellish pain.

Two brothers on discharge from the hospital. My sister was still in the intensive care unit at that time

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Immediately after the birth, the children were sent to the intensive care unit. The boys, Mark and Matvey, were discharged a week later, but Milan stayed in the hospital for a long time. She was the smallest of the trio and weighed only 960 grams. The girl was left under the supervision of doctors so that she could gain the desired weight.

A little later it turned out that the baby was not being discharged due to a more serious health problem.

- At first they told me that Milanochka had tachycardia. I thought that she was not being discharged, because it was tachycardia that was being treated. So I calmed myself down. And when she came to visit her, she was frightened, she was all in tubes. So scary. Then I did not suspect anything terrible. I thought that this is how tachycardia is treated. And only then the doctor said that she had intestinal necrosis.

The little girl survived intestinal surgery

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Intestinal necrosis is a life-threatening condition characterized by the death of intestinal wall tissue. It can occur as a complication of the oncological process, severe inflammation, infection, intestinal obstruction.

This was terrible news. After all, the parents of the babies were told throughout the pregnancy that the children would be healthy - development is going well.

Milana spent some time in the perinatal center. Then the spouses agreed to transfer the baby to OKB No. 2 for surgery. They did not immediately take the girl away, because they realized that she was still too weak. And then, two days later, they still operated on at OKB No. 2, they removed her rotten intestine. The girl was transferred to the ward, where she had to lie alone. Her parents only brought her everything she needed. It had been a few days since she was switched to normal infant formula and she had a bowel failure.

- Milan was supposed to be discharged on June 10, but there was an intestinal breakdown. She was left in the hospital, - Andriy Boboshko said. - We were immediately told that the gastroenterologist is her main friend in life. Well, be an athlete. On proper nutrition.

But this was not the only problem. The child's nose was burned in intensive care during ventilation. Mom saw redness, but she was assured that it was a small burn that would soon pass without leaving a trace. However, in reality it turned out quite differently - the girl's face was disfigured. Now she has no tip of her nose.

— The doctor told me that, in principle, the nose is intact. I looked, the nose is really intact. I thought: well, burn and burn. Everyone has burns. I didn’t know what degree the burn was, because it was hidden under a layer of spray. I was calm because my nose was completely intact. Yes, it was red, with a crust, but whole, - says Vladlena.

Every premature baby has such rockets. They are donated by the charitable foundation

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This is the stroller of the large Boboshko family. When they walk around the yard, all the people turn around

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When the child's condition stabilized and it became possible to visit the girl, Vladlena came to her room and was horrified.

— I saw that my daughter was missing part of her nose up to the septum. I was very upset, I asked the doctors who was to blame. But no one could answer. I began to look for third-party doctors to find out how this could happen. She showed a photo with redness when the nose was still there, but already with burns, and what was left after. And the specialist explained to me that such a burn does not occur immediately. In one of the photos, he saw puffiness, which means that the process was already underway and then lasted until the tissue died off, ”the girl’s mother said.

Milana looks at her favorite toy

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According to Milana's mother, no one even apologized for what they did to the girl. And this despite the fact that the child will now have to undergo plastic surgery.

— We consulted doctors. Now only plastic surgery can help Milan. And given that she does not have a nose to the very cartilage, she will have to do plastic surgery every year. We are experiencing. Of course, we love her very much, no matter what nose she has. But we are afraid that this situation will not affect her life in any way, - says Andrei Boboshko. She is still too small for operations. Yes, and so she already had too many in a short time. We think that we will decide on a nose job closer to the kindergarten, so that she feels confident there.

Mark, Milana and Matvey Boboshko

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One of the triplets sneaked into the frame while his brother and sister were dozing in the crib

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The family is not going to leave what happened. They have already applied to the police, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office. And then - only the court. The couple want the doctors to answer for their negligence and the spoiled health of the baby.

The health department, where we sent the official request, knows this story. They also got involved in the proceedings.

— Based on this fact, checks are currently being carried out aimed at assessing the quality and safety of care provided to mother and child at the Perinatal Center. Considering that this institution is a medical organization where women with a high degree of risk of maternal and fetal health, who have severe somatic diseases or fetal pathology, give birth, checks are carried out by the competent departments. The situation is still being analyzed, the department said.

Time will tell whether the perpetrators of what happened will be found. We will follow the development of this story.

Life cubed: what is it like to give birth to triplets or grow up in triplets?

It is impossible for a mother of triplets to walk unnoticed. However, behind the outward cuteness of the triplets are difficulties, worries and risks. In this material, we will tell the story of a mother of triplets, the story of a child who grew up in triplets, and also find out the opinion of a candidate of biological sciences and a geneticist about multiple pregnancy.

According to the latest available data, the frequency of triplets in the Republic of Kazakhstan is 1 in 9086 births. These numbers are very similar to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's data that triplets occur in about one in 10,000 pregnancies. Today, with the introduction of reproductive technologies, the chance of multiple pregnancy is increasing. So, with in vitro fertilization (or IVF), several embryos are planted in the uterus. More often, only one of them takes root, but several can survive. Then a supermultiple pregnancy can develop, when four or more children are born at once.

“In general, multiple pregnancy can occur as a result of two mechanisms. In the first, two or more eggs are fertilized at once. Then fraternal, or, scientifically, heterozygous, twins are born. In the second mechanism, the fertilized egg divides into two or more parts shortly after fertilization. Each part develops into a fruit. In this case, identical, or homozygous, twins are born, - explains Anastasia Perfilyeva, candidate of biological sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Physiology of the CS MES RK. “Now I will explain how triplets are formed. Here, too, two paths can be described. At the first, three eggs are fertilized at once, as a result of which trizygotic twins are born. Or triplets develop from two eggs. In this case, after fertilization, one egg splits, and the second remains in its original state. From the first egg, an identical pair of twins develops, from the second, a third child.

Now let's move on to the emotional part of the material. Akbota Andasbayeva, mother of triplets, shared her story with pleasure:

“When the ultrasound specialist, smiling broadly, told me that I had triplets, I lay on the couch with a swarm of thoughts in my head: “How to bear three children at once, what will be their health, will my body survive, given that I am short and weighing less than 50 kg. I was in shock, I couldn't say anything. She didn’t tell her husband right away, but when, after the examination, we calmly sat down to talk over a cup of coffee. I told him the news and showed him the ultrasound scans. He is a low-emotional person, so his reaction was quite calm, he just joked: “Well, what can I say, I’m done!” His mother reacted with tears in her eyes, hugged me and cried with happiness. My mother immediately began to worry, because first of all she was afraid for me. She spent my entire pregnancy stressed.

By the way, the pregnancy was going well, apart from terrible toxicosis. After the 20th week, I could no longer walk much, I was constantly lying, since three children is a huge burden on the spine. The stomach began to grow rapidly, and it was a big surprise for me to switch from size XS to men's t-shirts in size 54.

According to the protocol, pregnant triplets after 34 weeks are sent for a planned caesarean. So on my 26th birthday, I went to the hospital. The operation took place under general anesthesia, and when I came to my senses, the first thing I asked was: “Is everyone alive?” The midwife came in and said that everything was fine, all three began to breathe on their own, the lungs opened. This is exactly what I wanted to hear! Two girls are in intensive care and one is in the neonatal pathology department. I was in another room and went to visit them, bottle feed them, change diapers. At the maternity hospital, the nurses showed me everything, explained how to care for premature babies. According to the rules, we had to lie in the maternity hospital for a month, but after two weeks we were allowed to go home.

I never felt like I couldn't do it. I knew right away that I could do anything. Yes, there were sleepless nights. Every three hours it was necessary to feed the babies, each ate for an hour and a half, then I could sleep for an hour and a half and feed again. Once, in a conversation with a friend, I even considered: it was necessary to wash the children at least 15 times a day, wash the bottles 18 times and sterilize them, in addition, change clothes / play / feed - so my whole day passed. It’s good that my husband, my grandmother after work, my sister and a house helper helped me, who made my life easier while I was taking care of the children.

Everyone said “When they grow up, it will become easier”, but I realized that the older the children, the more difficult it is mentally

Now it's not enough just to bottle feed, now we meet with their characters, whims. And to calm the three, to pay attention to everyone - it's not easy. I think every mom is a hero! We recently celebrated the second birthday of our triplets.

Have I been depressed or burned out? I do not remember that I cried in hysterics from fatigue. I “agreed” with the higher forces and with myself that if they are born alive and healthy, then I will not complain and whine. But it's too early to draw conclusions, now our fourth daughter has been born, who is already two months old. And maybe postpartum depression is yet to come. However, I am a fairly positive person, I find bright moments in everything.

My girls were born from two placentas: Alima and Amina are twins, and Khadisha was in a different placenta, she differs from her sisters in appearance, in hair structure, clothing size and temperament. I think Alima and Amina will have fun due to the similarity, as my sister and I did. After all, I am from twins, my twin sister has always helped me. At school, the teachers, of course, confused us. When we entered universities, we helped each other out as best we could. I’ll tell you a secret that my sister took several exams for me at the session, and I spent the night for her in the hostel. Sometimes they confused the guards and went out in turn. And sometimes strangers came up to me and greeted me. I didn’t have time to explain that I was a sister.”

In this material there is a story of the same loving triplets sister. Camila told about her relationship with her twin brothers and that she is an unexpected miracle for her parents, as only two boys could be detected on ultrasound:

“Mom gave birth to us naturally in the seventh month. On ultrasound, my mother was told that she was pregnant with twins. In the end, I was the eldest, five minutes later my brother was born, and ten minutes later another. We lived and grew up like ordinary children. Dad was given 12 square meters in a hostel from work, where our childhood passed.

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