Triplets Set World Record As Most Premature Birth
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The trio spent 216 days in the neonatal intensive care unit at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
Three sisters from the UK have broken two Guinness World Records - for being the lightest and most premature triplets to survive. Rubi-Rose, Payton-Jane and Porscha-Mae Hopkins weighed a total of 1.28kg when they were born. The trio were born on 14 February 2021 and are now happy two-year-olds.
The trio spent 216 days in the neonatal intensive care unit at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, according to a Guinness World Records press note. They are dizygotic triplets, meaning Rubi-Rose has a unique genetic makeup whilst Payton-Jane and Porscha-Mae are identical twins.
Triplets' father, Jason Hopkins said, "The whole journey between finding out that they were triplets and then actually being here was I think the quickest pregnancy I've ever known."
For the triplets' mother, Michaela, the day her triplets were born was "very traumatic." She added, "I was contracting but the baby wasn't coming out."
