2023-09-10 04:00:00
After seven difficult years struggling with unexplained infertility, a couple from the Laurentians suddenly found themselves with triplets.
“Even today, there are times when we rock the children and we say to ourselves “ayoye, we have three!” says Stéphanie Spidalieri, from Brébeuf in the Laurentians, laughing.
Three miscarriages
The 33-year-old woman, who gave birth to triplets in March, is still struggling to realize it. She and her partner had been trying to have a child for seven years and had gone through three heartbreaking miscarriages.
“The project was falling through,” she breathes, after a difficult year, marked by the death of her sister and her niece in a road accident. The couple was not considering fertility treatments or in vitro fertilization.
And even after the announcement of a positive pregnancy test, Mme Spidalieri kept a cool head. “We weren’t alarmed,” she said, even though she feared another disappointment.
Then, the announcement of the triplets came at the first ultrasound. “They all had their apartment on the same block,” she laughs, about the three different eggs.
“It was a shock. You just see that in the movies!” says Éric Pilon in turn. The future dad then swapped his truck for a Dodge Caravan.
What awaited the couple only became real after 25 weeks of pregnancy, when the babies then became viable. They had also refused embryo reduction, to remove one or two fetuses, not wanting to take any chances even if the pregnancy remained riskier.
Stephanie Spidalieri finally gave birth at 34 weeks to three babies weighing four and a half pounds. “There are three of them, healthy, I couldn’t ask for better,” she rejoices.
Isabelle Otis
A boy and two girls, Xavyer, Julyette and Elyrose, united by the letter Y, which their mother saw as a symbol of three.
900 diapers per month
However, the task is colossal for new parents.
“We change 900 diapers per month, close to 100 bottles per week,” says Mme Spidalieri, who deplores the little help, both financial and physical, that is offered to parents in his situation.
“If you don’t have people around you, you’re not going to make it,” she believes, adding that her mother comes to help her every day. “We are lucky that we have godparents,” adds Mr. Pilon, about the relatives and friends who take turns to help them.
Galloping inflation also worries the couple who see expenses skyrocketing. They will soon need not one, but three new car seats for children, for example.
“It changes your life from start to finish, but it’s also the most beautiful thing that could have happened to us,” says the father of the triplets.
Multiple pregnancies, of more than three children, only account for 3% of births in Quebec.
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