A second set of triplets has been born at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in the same month.
The three babies – a girl and two boys – were delivered by Caesarian section after Almorie Thomas, a 25-year-old school bus driver of Dutch St Maarten, arrived in Barbados by air ambulance last Thursday night for emergency surgery 33 weeks into her pregnancy. A team of three paediatricians, three midwives and three nurses assisted with the delivery.
The baby girl, Lizamor, weighed four pounds, 12 ounces at birth while one brother – Tyryce – weighed four pounds, ten ounces and the smallest of the triplets – Tyriek – weighed three pounds, ten ounces.
Thomas told the DAILY NATION yesterday that she and her husband Rees, a barber, would be forced to leave Tyriek in the hospital for a while longer, after they returned to St Maarten.
Rees Thomas flew into Barbados on Saturday to be with his wife and yesterday the two happy parents cuddled their newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where the babies are receiving care.
The Thomases have a two-year-old son.
Head of the paediatrics at the QEH Dr Clyde Cave said the case was referred to Barbados?after it was realised that the triplets were in threatened labour and “something needed to be done beyond their [St Maarten’s] capabilities”.
On March 4, 22-year-old Jahna Agard also delivered triplets – two boys and a girl – by Caesarian section at the QEH.
