Mum's irritable bowel turned out to be triplets!

UK mum went to doctor with tummy trouble, only to discover she was five months pregnant with TRIPLETS .

Sarah Senior, 37, thought her irritable bowel syndrome was causing her problems again. She was still a size 10 and having her normal irregular periods.

But when her GP feared an ovarian cyst, he sent her for a scan at the hospital. A consultant asked her if she realised she was pregnant.

“I said I couldn’t be,” Sarah told the Sunday People . “I’d done two pregnancy tests and both were negative.

“But the consultant said I was definitely pregnant and it looked like twins. My jaw hit the floor.”

A scan revealed there were actually three heartbeats.

Sarah and her partner Jason Cooper, 39, had been trying for another baby for nearly a year.

The couple have a daughter Rebecca, 10, and Sarah also has a son Harry, 14, from a previous relationship.

Sarah said: “When we told them I was pregnant, Harry instantly said it was going to be triplets and they’d be born on his birthday.”

The triplets were born on the 16th December 2014 (Harry’s birthday) Mollie and Lillie were born weighing 2lb 15oz, while Evie weighed 2lb 4oz.

Sarah said, “I am so grateful that my tummy ache wasn’t IBS. It was my three beautiful daughters,” she said.

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16 Comments

- - mom140193 said
  - 03 Jul 2016
    9:56 pm
Wow. A huge shock but a beautiful surprise and blessing for this family.

- - mom134803 said
  - 25 Jun 2016
    4:08 am
Wow, what a wonderful surprise !!

- - Nas01 said
  - 19 May 2016
    12:44 pm
I couldn’t imagine thinking I have irritable bowel staight to triplets.

- - pakeko said
  - 03 May 2016
    8:54 pm
what a shock to find out, such cute kids

- - june11 said
  - 03 May 2016
    7:04 pm
Congratulations – an initial shock followed by joy that evreybody is OK.
Unless they already had a people mover they would have been searching for one or now using 2 cars everywhere they go. The majority of standard size cars will not fit 3 babyseats on the back seat. They definitely won’t fit in late model Barinas or Camrys. A friend of ours has an old model Commodore. 3 just fit but they are hard up against each other.

- - mom81879 said
  - 03 May 2016
    5:20 pm
What a shock! To think you’re having poo problems and you’re actually having triplets!!! Congrats guys, enjoy your beautiful fam bam

- - BellaB said
  - 03 May 2016
    4:58 pm
What a lovely surprise… I’m amazed triplets didn’t show up on a pregnancy test, though!

- - mom101628 said
  - 03 May 2016
    4:43 pm
What a wonderful surprise. Congratulations.

- - mom165081 said
  - 03 May 2016
    3:19 pm
Now that would have been one massive shock! Dr’s sometimes just can’t explain this kind of thing easily.
- mom93821 replied
  
  04 May 2016 , 7:22 am
  Sometimes even doctors are baffled!
- - mom90758 said
  - 03 May 2016
    2:32 pm
Amazing! Triplets! And born exactly on the birthday of the older son!! Congratulations!!

- - mom156049 said
  - 03 May 2016
    1:44 pm
What a beautiful surprise!! And wow being pregnant with triplets and still in usual size 10!! I wonder if her belly looked obviously pregnant at all before they were born

- - taynik46 said
  - 03 May 2016
    1:12 pm
oh my what a way to find out your having 3 babies! – I’d die I think if this happened to me!

- - mom160421 said
  - 03 May 2016
    12:35 pm
Amazing news to receive. So glad all are well and happy.

- - curlytops said
  - 03 May 2016
    12:19 pm
Wow what a big surprise!

- - mom93821 said
  - 03 May 2016
    10:45 am
Congrats to them, much nicer than horrible IBS!