{"id":296821,"date":"2023-08-22T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=296821"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:15:48","slug":"premature-triplets-college-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/premature-triplets-college-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Premature triplets are all grown up and headed to college together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Premature triplets born at 27 weeks are grown up and thriving \u2014 and now they are going to college<\/a> together<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Twin sisters Morgan and Sinai Hicks will be attending Spelman College, while their brother, Tony Hicks, is going to school right across the street at Morehouse College. Both are historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the metro area of Atlanta, Georgia. It’s a promising beginning of a bright future for a set of triplets whose start in life wasn’t easy.<\/p>\n

USA Today reported<\/a> that the triplets were born 13 weeks prematurely. Tony weighed in at two pounds, while the girls weighed just 1.1 pounds each. They were so small, their father’s wedding ring could fit around their wrists.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe [Morgan] was the smallest of the three,” Tony Hicks, Sr. said. “It was just amazing to see that and to see them now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Initially, doctors predicted that both the triplets and their mother, Sharnetta Hicks, wouldn’t survive the night. But those predictions were thankfully wrong. \u201cGod be the glory \u2026 they all survived and everyone’s healthy,\u201d said Tony, Sr.<\/p>\n

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