“Triplets aren’t all that unusual. I grew up with a couple sets of triplets before IVF and the resulting surge of multiple births. I can hardly justify in my mind the ‘reduction’ for quints, much less triplets....”
...I agree. I’ve only swapped words with one set of triplets in my life and they were probably the result of modern fertility clinic procedures. Earlier it was a one-in-ten-thousand birth phenomenon. But that would also mean there are 100 sets per one million population.
My brother is married to one of a triplet of girls. They were born back in 1959 to the mother of 5 other children at the age of 44. Good grief. They are all three my friends. Wonder how they survived way back before C-Section and even Ulrasound. She did not even know there were three until delivery.