COUPLE’S AGONY TURNS Our gift from heaven
Ali loses baby due on August 2... then triplets arrive on same date
BESOTTED mum and dad Ali O’Leary and Chris Deasy cradle their tots after fate — and a very special date — brought them three bundles of joy.
The premature triplets, just home from hospital, were born eight weeks ago.
Their arrival lifted the pain of losing a child when Ali suffered a miscarriage at the end of last November. The child would have been due on August 2.
The triplets were originally due this week, on October 3. But they were born prematurely – on August 2.
Super- cute Lenny, Ted and Bruce are brothers for delighted four- year- old Georgia, who is pictured cuddling them.
And thrilled Ali, 32, tells the Sunday Mirror: “When I realised they had been born on the same day that the baby I lost was due, it was so emotional for us.
“I was initially upset that the triplets had been born early, because they were so tiny and I blamed my body for not being able to hold on to them for longer.
JOURNEY
“But then I realised that it was meant to be. We see them as a gift from heaven – and they are our three little miracles.
“It feels as though our previous baby was looking after them.”
Ali’s amazing journey of hope, despair and finally unfettered joy began late last year when she fell pregnant.
She and partner Chris, a 31-year-old car salesman, could not wait to welcome a little brother or sister for Georgia.
But sadly, she lost the baby when she was just five weeks pregnant.
Her dreams of a growing family were shattered... but not for long, as she fell pregnant again in January.
Ali, from Dublin, admits she never imagined she would conceive so soon afterwards. “It was a total surprise,” she says.
“We never expected it at all. I just did a pregnancy test because I felt unwell and I was getting pregnancy-like symptoms.
“I never imagined that I could have been pregnant so quickly afterwards, but when I saw that it was positive it was such a shock.
“We went for an early scan at about seven weeks because I was so worried after the miscarriage.
“I wanted some reassurance to check that the baby had a heartbeat.
“It was such a shock at the time because doctors said they could see two heartbeats and told us we were having twins. My sister has twins, so I just laughed and said it ran in the family.”
But then came the next twist to this remarkable story. When Ali went back for her 12-week scan on March 15 she discovered, to her amazement, that there were three heartbeats.
She explains: ‘ I just couldn’t believe it. The sonographer ran the scanner over my stomach and kept staring at the screen.
“Then they showed me that it was triplets and, sure enough, there were three heartbeats flickering on the screen.
Chris was absolutely speechless. I was just worried about how big my bump was going to get!
CALM
“The doctors said that two of the triplets were sharing one amniotic sac and they hadn’t been able to see that when I’d had the early scan at seven weeks.
“They had been able to see one of the heartbeats, but the other one was behind it, so they thought I was only pregnant with twins. But at the 12- week scan, the babies were bigger, so they could see all three of them.
“It was a shock to go from thinking I was pregnant with twins, to being pregnant with triplets.
“But I think because I’d suffered the heartbreak of the miscarriage, I just took it all in my stride and was calm about everything. The