After spending six weeks in intensive care, little Roman, Rocco and
Rohan look so similar one can not tell them apart.The odds of having
identical triplets is an incredible 200 million to one.
Fortunately
for their 23-year-old mother, tell-tale features plus the ten-month-old
triplets’ emerging personalities mean she for one has no trouble
telling them apart.
‘When they were newborns it was quite hard to tell which one was which,
but I never got them mixed up myself,’‘They’ve all got dark birthmarks
between their eyebrows, but Roman’s is slightly darker than the others’,
and Rohan has got a birthmark on his leg as well.
According to the Multiple Births Foundation, the only way to establish
for certain whether twins or triplets are identical – known as zygosity
determination – is usually DNA testing.
After consulting them,
Miss Allen took cheek swabs from Roman, Rocco and Rohan and sent them
off to a laboratory to be analysed – and earlier this month received the
news that they are genetically identical.
I was surprised because I expected them to be non-identical,’ she said.
‘But then I’m normally the only one who can tell them apart, so that
does explain a lot!’
The triplets get through around 130 nappies a week between them and four
packs of baby wipes, while a pack of formula lasts about two days and
the washing machine is run around three times a day.
As their father, Liam Tierney, 28, does not live with her, much of the day to day help comes from her sister Lauren, 17.
Daily Mail