Sisters Gina Purcell, Nina Rawlings-Tran and Victoria Brown.Photo: Tina Rawlings
A set of California triplets have always shared a tight bond, but now they’re taking their sisterhood one step further as they all experience pregnancy together.
When the little ones make their arrivals this summer and in the late fall, it will be Rawlings-Tran’s first child, Brown’s second, and Purcell’s third.
“I was the last to get pregnant so when I announced it at Easter dinner, my sisters started screaming and crying right away,” Purcell, 35, recalls. “My mom kept saying ‘No way, no way! What?! Are you serious?'”
“We were over the moon and so excited because we really didn’t think it would ever happen,” Purcell adds of being pregnant beside her sisters, who were all born four minutes apart.
Gina Purcell, Nina Rawlings-Tran and Victoria Brown.Tina Rawlings
Purcell’s disbelief over the pregnancy stems, in part, back to a miscarriage she suffered a few years ago, according toFox News, which first reported news of the sisters’ pregnancies.
At the time, Purcell and her husband Paul, who live in Foothill Ranch, already had two children, and the devastating miscarriage caused them to stop trying for more, the outlet reported.
Around Thanksgiving 2020, Brown, the youngest of the sisters, announced to her family that she was expecting her second child with her husband Daniel, according to Fox News.
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A month later, Rawlings-Tran had good news too: she was also pregnant after trying with her husband Paul for over a year, the outlet reported.
“Since it’s her third one, she was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know, I’m not sure, the kids are a little bit older,'” recalled Rawlings-Tran. “Then they ended up trying and got pregnant. So it’s super fun, super lucky.”
Adds Purcell to PEOPLE: “This pregnancy has been a huge blessing. At first, I was super nervous of course to even tell anyone, but as time went on and we passed all the prenatal tests, I’m now able to enjoy it more… And when this happened so easily and quickly, we knew it was worth the wait, especially to experience it with my sisters.”
Gina Purcell, Nina Rawlings-Tran and Victoria Brown as babies.Tina Rawlings
Throughout their pregnancies, Purcell says “it’s been incredible” to have her sisters to lean on.
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Looking ahead to the future, Purcell says she is excited to “go on trips and outings together.”
Above all, she most looks forward to watching them become “best friends” and developing a close-knit bond, just as the three sisters have done.
“It’s different to have cousins the same age versus years apart because these three will have a special bond like my sisters and I do,” Purcell says.
Added Rawlings-Tran to Fox News: “We shared everything before. But now that we have this — because being pregnant in itself is a blessing. So, being able to share this with your best friends is just surreal.”
source: people.com
