"Doctors and nurses explained they're triplets but years apart – which is a bit scary."Posted by North Devon Journal on Thursday, April 2, 2015
Denise and Glen Higgs of the U.K. thought they would never be able to conceive after Glen was diagnosed with testicular cancer and the treatment for which would make him infertile.
After learning of his condition, Glen froze some of his sperm, with the hope he could one day be a father. "I had an unusual tumor growing within the testicle. After all my treatment, they tested my sperm and they were non-swimmers. I knew then that if I ever wanted to have children I would have to go through IVF," he told the Daily Mail.
He and Denise married in 2011, and they started IVF treatments shortly after. Doctors were able to create eight embryos using his frozen sperm, and their daughter, Mazy, was born three years ago.
Since they used two embryos in their attempt to have their first child, they had six left. Instead of disposing of them, they decided to try again and use another two. "Amazingly, they both stuck, and we have ended up with two more beautiful babies." Since the embryos came from the same batch, all of their children—including Mazy—are considered triplets.
I always wanted to have kids and am a big family man. The process we went through was hard but we could not have asked more from the final outcome...I am the happiest man ever....What my wife and her body had to go through makes her the real hero to me.
The babies, Carter Joel and Carson Alan, were born on March 24, 2015.
