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Cutest trio enjoy first Christmas with their family
There’s no shortage of beautiful Christmas trees but proud mum Mary Mccandlish has a beautiful Christmas three.
Her miracle triplets, Tomas, Tyler and Thai, spent their first weeks fighting for their lives in a baby intensive care unit.
The 14- month- old babies are now looking forward to their first Christmas at home.
It will be a big Christmas for Mary, of Barrhead in East Renfrewshire, as she already had four children before her triplets were born.
They were conceived naturally after Mary, 36, decided to have one last baby.
Mary said: “We spent last Christmas sitting around three little incubators watching the boys fight to survive.
“My triplets were born 10 weeks early by caesarean section after doctors decided it would be too risky for the pregnancy to continue.
“I am just five feet tall and felt I had done well to get to 30 weeks in pregnancy.
“The boys were running out of space in the womb and doctors wanted to give them the best chance to survive.
“Even when they were born the doctors couldn’t promise that they would all survive but they blossomed from the moment they took their first breath.”
Thai arrived weighing 3lb, Tyler
2lb and Tomas just 1lb. After their very premature start to life the tiny triplet boys impressed doctors at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow with their will to live.
When they were able to breathe on their own nursing staff reunited them in a super-sized incubator. Their tiny hands reached out to grasp each other in the way they had done in the womb. Earlier this year, after 10 weeks in hospital, the boys were allowed home to join their four big brothers and sisters.
Thai arrived home first, followed by Tyler and then Tomas.
Mary says she this will be the best Christmas ever for the family.
“It will be one of the busiest in any