Kerala couple, of their 50s, blessed with triplets

By Express News Service

KOCHI: Cicy and George Antony are ecstatic. After a protracted wait of over three many years, they’re now the proud dad and mom of three newborns. The triplets had been born to them at Sabine Hospital in Muvattupuzha on July 22. A  gushing Cicy, 55, mentioned that their prayers had lastly been answered.

“For the past 35 years,  we have been praying for a baby. God has now blessed us with three children. It is very difficult to be part of a society which thinks that becoming a mother marks the completeness of a woman. The pain and the agony that a woman encounters when she is unable to conceive can only be related to by those who have gone through that. It is one of the toughest and most emotionally draining experiences a woman can pass through. However, now, we are experiencing the happiest period in our lives,” mentioned the Irinjalakuda native.

George Antony, 59, husband of Cicy, couldn’t have been anymore glad than this. “Treatments went on for nearly 34 years, not just in Kerala, but abroad too. Life was in despair, but finally, all we have been through was worth it,” he mentioned.

Cicy and George had acquired married in 1987. Since he labored within the Gulf, for over 18 years, they had been settled there. Later, they got here again to Kerala and began their very own enterprise enterprise. Two years into their marriage, the couple started in search of numerous remedies to have a toddler. After repeated makes an attempt didn’t yield desired outcomes, the 2 even considered not getting into for any additional therapy.

Last June, Cicy developed steady bleeding. When she sought therapy at a non-public hospital in Kochi, the medical doctors there suggested her to have her uterus eliminated. It was on the recommendation of one of many medical doctors, who had attended to her there, that Cicy approached Sabine Hospital.

In September, she began the therapy at Sabine Hospital, which is understood for infertility treatment. Though the couple had sought therapy at numerous well being centres and hospitals earlier, the expertise at Sabine was totally different, in response to Cicy.

“The good news was broken to us four months into the treatment. When we got to know that it was triplets, we were advised by our gynaecologist to stop travelling. Therefore, we took a house near the hospital on rent,” she mentioned.

Last month, Cicy was delivered of two child boys and a child lady. Three weeks after supply, they had been discharged from hospital. According to the medical doctors, the triplets are wholesome.

“It was on the advice of the doctor at the private hospital that we sought treatment here. It has been a milestone in our lives. To become a mother at 55 is a gift from God. To those trying to attain motherhood, do not give up hope and do not stop the treatment,” she mentioned.

In 2015, Tripunithura native Sujatha Saseendaran, 51, had delivered triplets on the identical hospital.

“It was a challenge for us. Now, with advanced medical technology, age is just a number for conception. It is the first time here that we are having a 55-year-old delivering triplets. We  had cases, where a 62-year-old delivered a baby. If there were no added comorbidities, it is possible to treat infertility,” mentioned Sabine Sivadasan, infertility specialist and chairman of Sabine Hospital and Research Centre.