The 20-year-old mom welcomed her daughters — Hazel, Sutton and Everett — 14 weeks ago
Hannah Sacks
Wed, May 6, 2026 at 8:07 AM PDT
https://people.com/mom-celebrates-first-mothers-day-with-triplets-rare-pregnancy-11967975
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NEED TO KNOW
- Mikayla Toney’s triplets were born from a rare spontaneous monochorionic triamniotic pregnancy, occurring in 1 in 100,000 pregnancies
- The babies were delivered at 32 weeks after a high-risk pregnancy and spent six weeks in the NICU
- Toney and her fiancé use color-coded bracelets to tell their healthy 14-week-old daughters apart at home
After experiencing an extremely rare pregnancy, Mikayla Toney is celebrating her first Mother’s Day with her baby triplets.
The 20-year-old San Diego mom is set to celebrate her first Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10, with her 14-week-old daughters Hazel, Sutton and Everett. According to CBS 8, the triplets were born from one of the rarest pregnancies in medicine.
Toney’s pregnancy was a spontaneous monochorionic triamniotic, which means that three naturally conceived babies shared a single placenta. Toney didn’t use any fertility drugs and shared that multiples don’t run in her family. Her condition occurs in only one in every 100,000 pregnancies.
“I couldn’t believe it until I went and scanned her myself,” said Dr. Sean Daneshmand, medical director of the maternal-fetal medicine program at Scripps Clinic. He explained he hadn’t seen a case like Toney’s in more than 25 years of practicing medicine.
“We were all shocked, and [Toney] was shocked herself as well,” he added.
Since there was only one placenta for the triplets, Toney had a high-risk pregnancy. She had weekly ultrasounds, and at 20 weeks, one of the babies began falling off the growth curve. At 28 weeks, Toney was admitted to the hospital so her babies could be monitored daily.
When the babies were delivered at 32 weeks, they each weighed just under 4 lbs. Hazel weighed 3 lbs., 14 oz., Sutton weighed 3.9 lbs., and Everett weighed 3.8 lbs. They went on to spend six weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
