• The Mum Whose Spontaneous Triplets Arrived All at Once

  • May 6 2025
  • Length: 32 mins
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The Mum Whose Spontaneous Triplets Arrived All at Once

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  • When 26-year-old Silje and her husband Jordan decided to expand their family beyond their 18-month-old son Mads, they never imagined what would happen next. In today's episode, Silje shares the breathtaking moment at her dating scan when the sonographer counted not one, not two, but three heartbeats—completely spontaneous fraternal triplets with no family history of multiples.

    From navigating a high-risk pregnancy while caring for a toddler and maintaining her legal career, to the extraordinary cesarean birth where she'd already named each baby based on their distinct movements in utero. Silje takes us through her journey of delivering Ada, Teddy and Eric at 34 weeks, and how this unexpected blessing transformed her into an advocate for multiple birth families across Australia.

    Diary Of A Birth features mums telling their miraculous stories of bringing life into the world. If you’d like to share your birth story, we’d love to hear from you at podcast@mamamia.com.au or send us a voice note here.

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    If you’re looking for something else to listen to, check out our hilarious and seriously unhelpful podcast The Baby Bubble hosted by Clare and Jessie Stephens.

    Mamamia has a podcast for every stage of parenthood.
    Our parenting podcast is This Glorious Mess.
    If you’re pregnant, listen to The Delivery Room and Hello Bump.
    And if you’re trying or preg-curious, Get Me Pregnant and Before The Bump are for you.

    CREDITS:

    Host: Ksenija Lukich

    Birth Story: Silje Andersen-Cooke

    Obstetrician & Gynaecologist: Dr Bronwyn Devine

    Producers: Ksenija Lukich & Tina Matolov

    Audio Producer: Leah Porges

    Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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