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Originally Posted by exlurker

A Warm and Welcoming Home

A little weird, but who isn't? --

"The girls are thrilled to have a sister -- and they know that she was conceived at the same time that they were, but has been in the freezer" . . . .

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/eleven-...ry?id=12492208

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

Strange to think about, though if it works for them then all the better. I'm happy for them to have had the chance to have children at all.
But still weird that they have an identical sister 11 years younger than them.
And what if they decide to donate the other 11 eggs? Are there going to be more of them out there that are technically "quadruplets" or more? Very interesting.

They're not triplets, they're a set of fraternal twins and a sibling. Identical twins/triplets/other multiples come from the same original zygote (it splits). Fraternal multiples come from two or more different zygotes and share the womb with one another.

Since the third didn't share the womb with the first two, she's a single. Saying they're triplets would be like saying my older brother and I are fraternal twins.