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In an astounding medical event that nearly broke global records, a South Los Angeles couple recently welcomed three healthy newborn boys with an incredible combined birth weight of 19.3 pounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n The three newborn boys, dubbed Elio, Elias, and Enzo, were the talk of the delivery room, eliciting gasps from hospital staff, physicians, and media alike. Multiple gestation (like the three babies in Craft\u2019s delivery) typically produces relatively small newborns because of limits on space in the uterus and common premature birth; the average set of triplets, for example, weigh only about 3.5 pounds.<\/p>\n Craft\u2019s babies, however completely ignored these norms to arrive incredibly massive and healthy, leaving the assembled obstetricians astonished. Besides their incredible and potentially record-breaking weight, the trio are a phenomenon in and of themselves.<\/p>\n Their formation in pregnancy represents what medical professionals in reproductive health known as \u201cmixed triplets.\u201d<\/p>\n The condition, in which a single pregnancy results in the simultaneous development of identical and fraternal siblings, is an exceedingly rare occurrence. In their current case, the first two babies, Elio and Elias, developed at the same time as identical twins.<\/p>\n They shared one placenta but are technically the result of a single ovulated and fertilized egg that separated into two zygotes relatively early in gestation.<\/p>\n Their third and youngest brother, Enzo was born as a fraternal twin, his own fully separated egg having also been fertilized by a separate sperm at the same time as the others and developing with their own separate amniotic sac and placenta.<\/p>\n Perhaps the sweetest coincidence in this story \u2013 along with being a medical feat. Three giant babies arrived on their father\u2019s birthday \u2013 the birthdate may not be easy for to forget.<\/p>\n Three high-weight babies\u2019 deliveries and resulting outcomes come with inherent medical risks and physical challenges-but the entire situation couldn\u2019t have ended on a better note.<\/p>\n Both their mother, Craft, and all three sons were in stable condition following the delivery; they had gained appropriate vital stability and are on the road to their new home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n