Triplets

At study group for the certificate of early childhood, I read over an interview with a parent of seven month old triplets. I love reading these interviews, because they are questions from local teachers asking parents about how they are raising their children. This interview, said that the mother was expecting two children, and when the third was born she screamed loudly and demanded the doctor take the third away. After a while, Dad convinced her to keep the third one too. The interview asked ‘what do you feed your newborn triplets?’ I always hope to hear ‘breast milk,’ but never seem to get that answer. Dad answered that when his babies were born they were fed extra special food, from most newborns, with more nutrients. He said he mixed all three different brands of formula milk available in Vanuatu into one tin, then made it up ‘extra strength.’ The mother also topped the diet up with a little breast milk as well. The interview then asked ‘what stimulation does your child receive now?’ Dad answered that they put a DVD on for two hours a day, and the babies stare at it for that long, but they have recently found that if they change the DVD they can get another two hours. It sounds quite stimulating if you ask me.