Mom dreamt about giving birth to triplets

All her life Keneisha Green wanted to have twins, but when she got pregnant in 2016, she instantly knew she was carrying triplets.

She told THE STAR that during her first trimester, she dreamt that she had given birth to two girls and a boy. Months later, her dream became a reality.

Celebrating their first birthday less than two months ago, Shameka, Tameka and Shamoy Somers are three of the most adorable babies in Maxfield Park, St Andrew. Flashing a smile, little Tameka awakens her two siblings, who reluctantly stretched and opened their eyes.

Within a few minutes, all signs of sleep was nowhere in sight.

"Shamoy is the most jovial. He is always blushing and playing, but his sisters are always ganging up on him. I have to watch them when they are sleeping because they will lie on him, and they know what they are doing because they will just poke him jokingly and then scamper away and laugh," Green said, noting that they are happy babies.

However, it wasn't a smooth pregnancy for the now mother of six. In addition to having preeclampsia, Green said that she also experienced severe body aches and had to be monitored very closely by a team at Victoria Jubilee Hospital. In fact, the complications resulted in the doctors having to take the babies from her about three weeks shy of the usual nine-month period.

A week after they were born, all three babies were home with their parents.

"The first five months was really challenging because I was really tired. It was pressuring, I had numerous sleepless nights. My head used to hurt so bad because I wasn't getting enough rest. But overtime they developed a sleeping pattern, and that's when me start get likkle rest," she said.

She noted that although their paediatrician is concerned about their current weight, they have big appetites.

"On an average week, them drink like 10 to 12 cans of formula. Because they are at the stage where they can eat food I try to cut back on the formula because them expensive. In a week and a half, they will finish a pack that have in 120 pampers. It rough bad sometimes because a dem father alone a work at this time," she said.

"Mi try work but when me check the day care me really can't afford it. The cheapest I heard is $12,500 per week, and me not even sure if me a go get a work that even pay me so much a week time," she added.

STROLLER NEEDED

Taking them on the road for medical appointments and other errands is sometimes extremely challenging for green to do solo. She stated that she would appreciate the assistance of a double stroller which she said would help greatly whenever she has to travel.

"Bwoy, when mi fi carry dem go clinic up by Bustamante Hospital [for Children] is a problem because me have to have one on my chest in a body carrier and one in my right and left hand. Added to that is the huge baby bag that I have to take to clinic. Is school time now so the other children are out and them father at work, so is me alone, and it hackling bad," she said.

Anyone who would like to assist Green may contact her at 876-524-1818.