No one prepares you for this part. They show you the adorable photos—triplets in matching outfits, smiling parents glowing with joy. But they never show you what it’s like when all three babies are crying at once, and you’ve barely slept more than an hour in five days.
I love my children more than anything, but some nights around 2:40 a.m., I sit at the edge of the bed with one baby in my arms and the other two wailing in the background, and I wonder—did we make a mistake?