For starters, getting pregnant with triplets is a surprise, right? Sure, it's not terribly unusual when we're talking about in-vitro and embryo transfers, which we are. Hang on, hang on, hang on. This isn't fertility treatment business as usual.

In this case, the doctor only transferred one embryo into the N.Y. mother-to-be's womb! What the ...?

At some point, that embryo split in half, and one of those halves split again. Three babies. All identical. The odds are pretty rare.

From FoxNews.com:

"This is the first one we're aware of in the literature in the country in which they only put back one embryo" and a woman gave birth to triplets, said Klein. "Most people put back two or three embryos, and you just never know."

Depending on the literature, experts estimate chances for identical triplets are between one and 60,000 and one and 200 million. (OK, that's a pretty big spread.)

The boys were born quite healthy and definitely identical -- an issue quickly solved via health and beauty aids.

To help tell them apart, the boys have a dot of maroon nail polish on their fingers. Logan Thomas, who weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces, has a mark on his thumb; Eli Kirkwood, a 4-pounder, has polish on his forefinger, and Collin McGuire, at 4 pounds, 11 ounces, has a mark on his middle finger. Logan may have a problem with a non-functioning kidney, but the other children are healthy, doctors said.

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