A suburban Detroit couple, Lauren and Michael Whitely, have given birth to identical triplet boys. They already have two older son aged three and two. Amazingly, the rare identical births occurred without the use of fertility treatment of any kind. Identical births are those created from one egg. The triplets were born at Henry Ford Hospital in St. Clair Shores on January 25, 2015. The babies have been in newborn intensive care but now are able to carry on at home. The Whitelys are young. Lauren is 32 and Michael 31. He says it is amazing to find himself with five children at that age. Identical triplets also were born December 5 to a woman in Billings, Montana. Dr. Savitri Kumar, a neonatologist at Henry Ford Hospital, said data on identical triplet births by natural conception varies from one in 60,000 to one in 2 million. Most doctors call the chances “one-in-a-million,” Kumar said.
