article_snippet: An Indiana couple who shocked doctors by naturally conceiving identical triplets welcomed An Indiana couple who shocked doctors by naturally conceiving identical triplets three daughters into the world on Thursday night.
article_snippet: While triplets have become more common with the rise of methods such as in vitro fertilization, having an identical trio naturally, where one egg is fertilized and splits into three separate embyros, is rare.
article_snippet: One in a million is commonly reported as the odds of having natural identical triplets, though estimates range from one in 60,000 to one in 200million.
article_snippet: There were in 4,600 triplets out of nearly 4 million US births in 2012 according to date from the Centers for Disease Control.
article_snippet: However there is no record of how many were identical or how many births involved fertility treatments.
article_snippet: The babies will be born through caesarean section, as the risks of naturally birthing the triplets are too high.
highlights_snippet: Odds of having identical triplets range up to one in 200 million .
  