London - A British mother could earn a place in the record books after giving birth to twins and a single baby at the same time, from two wombs, in what is believed to be a world first.
Hannah Kersey, 23, gave birth to the triplets - identical twins Ruby and Tilly and singleton Gracie by Caesarean section seven weeks prematurely in September.
Kersey was born with a condition called uterus didelphys, which means that she developed two wombs, but doctors had warned her that it was unlikely that she would carry a child in both.
The triplets had to remain in hospital for nine weeks, but they are now at home with Hanna and her partner, Mick Faulkner, 23, in Devon, south-west England.
"We are just over the moon at how healthy and happy the girls are," she said. "They are three lovely and incredible children, all with very different personalities.
"Gracie seems to be the ringleader - maybe because she grew up in her own womb. She is very determined and independent, always wanting her food before the others and to do things first," she said.
Doctors say there are only 70 women in the world known to have become pregnant in two wombs, and this is the first reported case of triplets.
"This is so rare you cannot put odds on it," said Ellis Downes, a consultant obstetrician at Chase Farm Hospital in London. - Sapa-AFP