“Wish you a two-child family in three years” is a Chinese saying commonly said to a couple as a blessing. What would it be like to have three children in one year?
Triplets are extremely rare. If you are lucky enough to be pregnant with triplets, your family will need thrice as much of everything prepared for the children and of the effort in taking care of them. Yet, the joy they bring will also be tripled.
The triplets of the MA’s family are: Hiu-wing (Ah Wing) (the eldest), Hiu-yu (Ah Yu), and Hiu-Sze (Ah Sze) (the youngest). Parents George and Janice welcomed their eldest daughter Hiu-lam (Lamlam) in 2002. When Lamlam was in kindergarten, they decided to have one more child so that Lamlam would have a younger sibling. It was a pleasant surprise to know that Janice was pregnant with triplets. Their lives have since become boisterous. The identical triplet sisters, who look the same as each other, have great fun every day bustling around and bringing joy to the family. Preterm birth is common for triplets, and the MA triplets are no exception. Janice gave birth to them after merely 27 weeks of pregnancy. Each of them weighed only around two and a half pounds by the time. Among them, Ah Yu and Ah Sze showed developmental delay and autistic features, only starting to speak at the age of five. Janice has been putting her heart into nurturing her daughters. At 11 years old now, the triplets are no longer lagging behind other children of the same age. The whole family is filled with joy.
Triplets of the KWONG’s family are: Sze-ching (the eldest), Tsz-ching, and Wing-ching (the youngest). Parents Quentin and Ashley did not have plans to have children by the time Ashley was pregnant. The unexpected arrival of the triplet sisters a year ago turned the couple’s world into a family of five. The KWONG children were also born prematurely, each weighing only about two pounds at the time of birth. Sze-ching and Tsz-ching had to stay in hospital for two months, while Wi
