When Tyana Staton learned she was expecting multiples for the second time, she was still using birth control. There is a 1 in 64 million chance that this may occur.
When Tyana Staton and Jarrell Covington, a couple from Milwalkee in the United States, learned they were expecting again, they already had a daughter, Khylee, who is now 3 years old. Multiple pregnancies run in Tyana’s family—she has a twin of her own and two sets of twin brothers—so she was aware of how common they are. However, what occurred to her went beyond mere probability. Her pregnancy resulted in triplets. The pair was anxious, but things are going well thus far. Little Kingston, girls Khyra and Khyla, and both were born in October 2018.
With four kids at home, Tyana and Jarrell knew they had to be on guard. “I started taking birth control right after they were born because I was like, ‘Okay, we’re not going to do this again anytime soon,'” the mother said in an interview with the US channel WTMJ. Still, six months later, the couple discovered that Tyana was pregnant again. What’s more, she was expecting triplets, once again. According to science, getting pregnant with triplets naturally is already rare. The chance is one in 9,000. The odds of this happening twice are one in 64 million.
It’s so unbelievable, Tyana had a hard time understanding what was happening. “I would say to the doctor, ‘No, you’re looking at my past exams,'” she says. She called her scared husband to break the news, but instead of being scared, he was overjoyed. “I was making history,” Jarrell explained.
During pregnancy, however, the couple lost one of the babies. The other two, Kaylee and Junior, were born in January, just 15 months after the triplets. The routine became crazy with six children at home, but, according to the father, they manage to organize themselves. “We see the blessing in the midst of chaos,” he says.
When people tell Tyana that she’s crazy for having so many children, she says she responds, “I just say I’m insanely blessed. I was chosen for this,” she explains.
The couple, however, opened a crowdfunding page on GoFundMe to ask for financial help, as the costs of having so many children are high.
