MEET the identical triplets who have beaten the odds.
Ten-month-old Roman, Rocco and Rohan Tierney are completely identical - meaning the odds of them being born were up to one in 200 million.
The story, which first appeared in The Liverpool Echo, tells how mum Becki-Jo Allen, 23, from Gateacre, was about nine weeks pregnant when she found out she was expecting not one but three bundles of joy.
The triplet's father is Liam Tierney, 28.
Becki-Jo Allen told The Liverpool Echo: “I had been being very sick and had a really bad headache so I booked an early scan and that was when I found out I was expecting triplets.
Genetically identical triplets Rocco, Roman and Rohan Tierney, who are 10-months-old, from Gateacre in Liverpool, pictured with their mother, Becki-Jo Allen. (Photo by James Maloney)“It was the biggest shock of my life!
“We haven’t got any triplets in the family so it came completely out of the blue.”
The three boys, who have a big sister, three-year-old Indiana, were born when Becki-Jo was just 31 weeks pregnant and spent their first six weeks in intensive care at Liverpool Women’s Hospital .
Becki-Jo said: “When they were born Rocco was 3lbs 5, Roman was 3lbs 6 and Rohan was 3lbs 10.
“Now they are absolutely thriving, getting bigger and meeting all their milestones.”
Becki-Jo said she was convinced they weren’t identical but had them tested after getting stopped in the street.
She said: “We don’t get anywhere fast because people are always stopping us when we’re out and asking if they are identical.
“I was always convinced they weren’t, because that’s what I had been told during my pregnancy.
“I got in touch with a company who sent me some swabs and within three days of me sending them back they told me the boys were identical.”
The odd of having naturally-conceived identical triplets is estimated to be somewhere between one in 60,000 and one in 200 million.
But Becki-Jo says she has no trouble telling the brothers apart.
She said: “I don’t get them mixed up - it’s only when they’re asleep that they look the same to me.
“They all have completely different personalities.”
