High school sweethearts Chance and Sara Hohensee were riding high with expectation when they went to a routine 10-week ultrasound appointment for their second child. The couple, who already had a one-year-old daughter, Harlow, was excited about expanding their family. However, they never could have imagined that this routine appointment would turn out to be “anything but.”
Soon after the ultrasound tech got Sara prepped and but the ultrasound wand on her belly, the mood changed dramatically, as both the tech and the Hohensees could see two babies on the screen.
“At first, we saw two,” Chance Hohensee told WDBJ. “And then she says, ‘Oh, there’s two,’ and then she goes ‘Oh, there’s a third.”
The Hohensees were about to be the proud parents of spontaneously occurring triplets, a triplet pregnancy in which no fertility treatments were used at all. Spontaneous triplets are so rare they only occur in about 1 in a million pregnancies. At first, the realization was too much to comprehend, but the overwhelm and uncertainty eventually turned to joy.
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Sara explained their emotional journey on her Instagram with a maternity photo, saying:
I’ve always been a type A planner. I’m a strong believer in structure, checklists, and timelines to keep things flowing smoothly and according to plan.
When people used to ask Chance and I how many kids we want, our answer was, “at least 2, but not more than 3”. That was our plan. We were more than happy leaving this “4 kid business” to other couples as we happily stuck to what we thought was best for us.
Then, at the 10 week ultrasound for what we thought was baby #2, we got the news of our triplets. We didn’t take it well. We cried a lot of tears (not of joy) with fear of the unknown, questioning God why He would give us so much more than we thought we could ever handle. It wasn’t our plan.