Fyffe couple’s `miracle triplets’ celebrate first birthday
Published: January 12, 2005
Triplets born to a Fyffe couple are described as being in good health as they celebrate their first birthday, an event viewed by family and friends as another godsend.
The conception and births of the babies were considered to be miracles because their mother, Regina Webb, was left paralyzed from the chest down when a Palm Sunday tornado destroyed her home on March 27, 1994.
To Regina and Randy Webb, the miracles do not stop there. All three girls sleep through the night now.
“They sleep 10 hours sometimes,” Regina Webb, who uses a wheelchair because of her paralysis, said last week. “We’ve really been blessed.”
Emily Grace was the first born at 2 pounds, 11 ounces. Alyssa Jean was the second born at 2 pounds, 8 ounces. And Lauren Olivia was the smallest at 1 pound, 11 ounces. The girls were born Jan. 7, 2004, at UAB Hospital and were home from the hospital by Feb. 27.
The girls now weigh about 16 pounds each.
“It’s getting harder for me to pick them up,” Webb said.
Regina Webb is amazed at how much the girls have grown and how healthy they are, considering they were born 10 weeks early. It was years after her paralysis that she and her husband felt confident enough to have children.
“I finally decided I’m not going to let this wheelchair stop me,” she told The Gadsden Times.
The couple tried for four years on their own, then went to a fertility specialist. Regina Webb became pregnant after 2 months of fertility injections.
She said there was only a 5 percent chance of triplets with the fertility medication doctors used.
Each baby had to be awakened every three hours for feeding until they were 5 months old. Regina Webb had returned to her job as a nurse at the hospital by that time. Randy Webb, who lost his job when the plant where he had worked for 26 years closed, became a stay-at-home dad. He has since started college classes four nights a week paid through federal education programs available to those who lose jobs.
Randy Webb still takes care of the girls during the day and Regina Webb’s mother and cousin help her at night until he gets home.
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