When Shane Kluge found out he and his wife were having triplets, he sobbed the whole way home. He admits they weren’t exactly tears of joy then.
After they had their first daughter, Emerson, the couple wanted to have another baby. When doctors said they saw twins, and then said they actually saw triplets, Hillary Kluge just laughed. “What else are you going to do?” she said.
Hillary Kluge gave birth to Palmer, Mosely and Boston on July 18 via cesarean section at North Colorado Medical Center. Palmer and Mosely are identical girls. Boston is a boy. All three, who weigh less than 5 pounds, arrived without complications, but will have to stay in incubators for a while.
They were the first triplets born at Greeley’s North Colorado Medical Center in nearly two decades. The last set of triplets was born at the hospital Sept. 11, 1998, to Maria Quiroz. Quiroz was the only one among her siblings to graduate high school. She was proud to see all three of her triplets, Jasmine Yvette Quiroz, Jose Florencio Quiroz Jr. and Jennifer Nicole Quiroz, graduate from Northridge High School this year.
Dr. Neil Allen, who delivered the Kluge triplets, also delivered two sets of triplets born at the hospital within a few days of each other in April 1984 to a Greeley family and a Windsor family.
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Updated Aug., 2017 at 9:15 a.m. The following corrected information has been added to this article: The amount of time between when triplets were born at North Colorado Medical Center July has been updated. An incorrect time span was provided by officials at NCMC.
