Motherhood? It's easy as 1-2-3

With four daughters under the age of four, including 18-month-old twins, Catherine Delegado thought she would struggle to cope with another child. Then a hospital scan revealed she was expecting triplets.

"I just burst into tears," she said. "It was so much of a shock. I have ended up with seven children under the age of five - and we weren't even trying for a baby."

Mrs Delegado, 34, owns her own domestic cleaning company and lives in a three-bedroom semi in Swansea.



She and husband Juan, 39, a maintenance worker, have no history of multiple births in their families.

"We feel very lucky as they were all so healthy," said Mrs Delegado, who gave birth to all her children at the Singleton Hospital in Swansea.

"But we are not planning any more - I think our family is complete."