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What a handful

By GEORGE HENRY, STAR Writer

Donna Palmer and her triplets (from left) Odane, Orane and Oshane. - george henry

SPALDINGS, CLARENDON:

PICTURE YOUR SELF being told by your doctor three days before giving birth to your new born baby that you will be giving birth to twins.

And picture yourself after giving birth to twins as you were informed by your doctor and after he had finished assisting you through labour with the delivery and almost left the room, he being called back by the nurse to come deliver a third baby.

Twins first

Well that was the case with Donna Palmer, 33, of Nine Miles in Spaldings, Clarendon on August 11, 2003, when she went to the Kingston Public Hospital to have her twins. "Three days before I gave birth I did an ultra sound which showed twins and when I went into delivery and two were born and the doctor was coming out of the room I heard the nurse said, doctor there is another one. I actually jumped from off the bed and I said no nurse two is twin, the ultra sound showed twins, so how could there be another one, and she said to me well we will see about that," said Palmer, a mother of six, who gave birth to Odane, Orane and Oshane Brown. "When I was told about triplets I felt real awful as if I was going to die, I was very frightened."

Difficult

She said apart from her sister who had twins, one of whom died, no one else in her family had ever given multiple births.

Asked how she was coping with three very energetic boys, she said it was very difficult. Donna says she has difficulty differentiating the boys, because each time she calls one the other two appears and all of them laugh and run back to whatever they were doing.

Whenever one does some-thing wrong she said she has to spank all three because she can't tell who is who. However whenever she spanked one the other two would hit her back and asked why she was spanking their brother. The boys she says fight sometimes and she has to give them haircuts regularly to prevent them from pulling each others hair.