“ it was scary , ” amy howard , 38 , of center moriches , new york , told today .
the babies will have to wear helmets for the next few get the latest from today sign up for our newsletter amy and mike howard went from a family of two to five in a matter of nine months .
hunter , jackson and kaden appear to be the first - known case of triplets all born with craniosynostosis , a rare birth defect in which the bones in a newborn ’s skull fuse together too early .
the triplets were a little crazy .
in january , the howard triplets — hunter , jackson and kaden — underwent surgery at stony brook university hospital to repair a condition .
courtesy howard family the triplets were conceived without fertility treatments : “ i think we just got lucky , ” mike said , recalling that his first reaction at the news was “ holy [ expletive ] .
but doctors said the chance of this occurring in triplets is one in 500 trillion .
then , their babies made medical history .
“ we worked out the probability of maybe on in 500 trillion to see a set of triplets the looked like these three , ” dr. david chesler , stony brook medicine , assistant professor of neurosurgery said .