Donna, The care worker, who is from Warsop, near Mansfield. She had been living abroad for four years with her Egyptian boyfriend, Mahmood, who is a policeman. She only discovered she was pregnant when she returned to the UK. She said : “I was told at the age of 24 that I wasn’t able to have children and now I’m blessed with three at 34. When I came back I found out I was pregnant and at five weeks I was told there were three heartbeats. It was such a shock. They told me it was a chance in a million, like winning the lottery and I could do with winning the lottery now for the money.”
She was referred to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham where she was given a scan every other week. At 32 weeks pregnant, Donna, became ɪʟʟ and was diagnosed with ᴘʀᴇ-ᴇᴄʟᴀᴍᴘsɪᴀ and was rushed into hospital. She said: “I was very large, I swelled up like a balloon. A week later and the boys decided to come into the world. I put into an induced ᴄᴏᴍᴀ for 15 hours and the triplets were delivered by caesarean section. When I woke up I was confused, everything was so loud. I came to in intensive care and all I wanted was a cup of tea. I didn’t realise they had been born.
I saw a photograph of my children and thought, ‘They’re not mine! How can they be my children because they must be stɪʟʟ inside me?’. I was so big I thought I was stɪʟʟ pregnant. Then they took me down to see them. It was amazing and I was so overwhelmed and the most content feeling I have ever had.”