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Three babies in nine months? Local woman says it could happen

'We were shocked, but it's pretty exciting now,' mother says

It’s shaping up to be a busy year for Samantha Palmer.

She gave birth to her son, Grayson, two months ahead of schedule back in February, and now, she’s already expecting another addition - make that additions - to the family.

Palmer and her partner are expecting non-identical twins - a boy and a girl - this December.

That’s three births in under a year.

“The doctors are expecting that the twins are going to be born very early, so they’re probably most likely going to be [at the] very max nine months apart, which is crazy,” Palmer said.

The twins will join older siblings Grayson and Malcolm - who’s three-and-a-half years old - as the family’s newest additions.

Palmer says that she and her partner were shocked when they heard from their doctor that there were twins on the way, and that there might be a chance that Palmer births three children in just nine months or less.

“There’s going to be three babies most likely within nine months, maybe sooner,” Palmer said. “I actually looked at the record, and two babies born within seven months is the record, like, the world record.”

“So I don’t know if we can beat that!”

“I mean, we’re not hoping...we don’t want them early, obviously,” she continued. “If it happens, it’s kind of unreal, actually.”

Palmer’s six-month old child, Grayson, was just six weeks old when she and her partner discovered that Palmer was pregnant again.

“We were shocked, but it’s pretty exciting now,” Palmer said.

Palmer will be relocating to Newfoundland with her partner, Brad Stubbington, and their two young boys early next week.

Stubbington will be studying non-destructive testing - an industrial trade-related course - at the College of the North Atlantic in Newfoundland.

“He has a lot of family out there, and we need a bigger house, so we ended up deciding to pack up and move across the country,” Palmer told SooToday. “We got a six-bedroom house on the ocean.”

“We outgrew our house very quick. We thought we’d do it now, before we have to drag four kids across the country.”

The couple is now in the process of trying to pick out names for their twins.

“We planned for Grayson, which took a little while, but then I said if i was gonna have three, that I wanted four,” Palmer said with a laugh. “So that worked out.”


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James Hopkin is a reporter for SooToday in Sault Ste. Marie
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