It's difficult for Ryan White to put into words the way everything came together for the birth of his and his wife's third child. ||||| 1 in a Million Chance: Minnesota Mom Welcomes Identical Triplets 
 
 When Terri and Peter Pazdernik found out they were having triplets back in July, they were thrilled – and terrified."It was hard to believe," Terri, 32, a social worker in Twin Valley, Minnesota, tells PEOPLE.But then came the true shocker: The triplets-to-be were identical.Studies have shown the chances of identical triplets range from one in 70,000 to one in two million, according to Terri's doctor, Dr. Peter Van Eerden at Sanford Health The couple, who already have a 6-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter, did not use fertility treatments, which can increase the chances of multiple births.The trio of newborns arrived, auspiciously, on New Year's Eve. The three girls are named Hannah, Natalie and Elise."We are just two regular people who are blessed with three babies who all look the same," Terri tells PEOPLE.Last March, the couple moved back to Terri's hometown, which has only about 800 residents. Now, three of them will look exactly alike."It's like having one big family," Terri says. "Our community will even be coming together to host a pancake benefit and silent auction to help us raise money for baby-related expenses."The hardest thing for the couple right now is living an hour away from their babies. Born at just 32 weeks, they are growing stronger with each day but can't leave the hospital just yet."It's heartbreaking not being able to see them every second of the day," Terri says. "But they will soon be able to come home and we can truly start our life together."
– To conceive identical triplets with fertility drugs, or to spontaneously conceive fraternal triplets, is not necessarily headline-worthy. But "to have a patient with spontaneous identical triplets is incredibly rare," says a doctor who recently delivered a set of such triplets—and puts the odds at about one in a million. Jody and Jase Kinsey of Miles City, Mont., knew that multiples were a possibility—Jase's dad was a twin—but they weren't expecting to hear, from the tech at their first ultrasound, that there appeared to be three babies in there. They soon ended up under the care of the aforementioned specialist, Dr. Dana Damron, and Jody gave birth to sons Cade, Ian, and Milo on Dec. 5, the Billings Gazette reports. Jody, 30, and Jase, 29, were already parents to son Jax, 6. "With them being identical, they all shared the same placenta so there could be possible complications," Jody explains; Damron kept a close watch to make sure all the babies were growing equally. Jody stopped working in September and was admitted to the clinic with early signs of labor in November, but ultimately the babies waited until 32 weeks—about the average gestational age for triplets, according to Damron. They were born via C-section between 3 pounds, 11 ounces and 4 pounds, 1 ounce, and all were "in excellent condition," he adds. Cade has been released from the hospital, but doctors want Milo and Ian to get a little better at eating first. Interestingly, another set of spontaneous identical triplets was born on New Year's Eve in Minnesota to Terri and Peter Pazdernik, People reports. These three are girls, named Hannah, Natalie, and Elise. (More identical triplets here and here. Even crazier? This story of identical quadruplets conceived naturally.)