Comments on: Identical Triplets Are Really Rare

By: Lou

Lou — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:57:08 +0000

Yeah, I always wondered how they managed to have eight kids on the space of eleven years. That would take an intense toll on your body. Plus, when the Pikes were younger that would have been insane with all these babies!
Think about it: When Mallory was five, the triplets were 4, Vanessa was 3, Nicky was 2, Margo was 1, and Claire was a blob. That’s a lot of toddlers to manage! Plus getting pregnant only a few months after having TRIPLETS when you already have another baby too? That’s FOUR BABIES and one in the oven. No parent would cope!

I’ve always thought Mallory’s family was ridiculous. I’ve met families with seven kids and such but the oldest is about 22 and the youngest is nine. Thats a much bigger age difference. And far more comfortable for the mother. And safer!

By: Laura @ hungryandfrozen

Laura @ hungryandfrozen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:57:31 +0000

Whatever happened to Miranda and Mariah? Didn’t one of them get their bra snapped by Pete Black?

Remember when the triplets were calling themselves JAB? Hee. I wonder if Anne used triplets to help Mal’s family be so big, so quickly - if Mal was the eldest of eight kids that didn’t include triplets (or even twins) but the youngest of which was not a baby, she probably would be older than eleven. Ugh, sorry if that last sentance was muddled!

By: myu

myu — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:29:56 +0000

I never really thought much of it before, but I was aware that it was really rare. Is it more common to have three non-identical triplets or triplets that are made up of one set of twins and one non-identical triplet?

By: Solitude

Solitude — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:52:37 +0000

I actually knew a set of identical male triplets in elementary school, so this really surprises me. I knew they must be rare, but they must have been the only identical male triplets born in the U.S. that decade! Maybe they were fraternal and I just didn’t notice the slight differences in appearance?

By: bbb

bbb — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:18:17 +0000

Miranda and Mariah Shillaber, friends of Mary Anne’s and Kristy’s. They sit with them at lunch in the first few books, but after that they sort of disappear.

I read this story today and immediately thought of the Pike triplets!

I think she was just way into big families and thought identical triplets sounded cool. I didn’t know they were so rare myself…

By: Adelaide Dupont

Adelaide Dupont — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:08:27 +0000

I never heard of Miranda and Mariah in the series.