On Saturday, identical triplets were born in Texas. Silvia Hernandez and Raul Torres are the parents, who welcomed babies Catalina, Ximena and Scarlett. The babies are born a few days earlier than the expected time. The triplets came in the world just minutes apart at Corpus Christi Medical Center and each girl was weighing of 4lbs 11ozs.

In addition to extremely rare birth of triplets, two of them are conjoined at the pelvis. Torres told ABC News that they are fine. He said so as his wife recovered from her cesarean section.

At present, the two babies are going into surgery. Their liquids will be checked so as to see that nothing's blocked up. It is not rare to have triplets with the increasing methods such as in vitro fertilization; however having an identical trio naturally, in which one egg is fertilized and divides into three separate embryos, is not a common thing.

There is one case in a million that is commonly reported as the abnormalities of having natural identical triplets and just one in six triplet pregnancies gives rise to three babies of the same sex. The case of conjoined twins occurs once every 200,000 live births, and out of these only approximately 35% survive beyond the first day.

In the final weeks, Torres had to leave his job to care for his wife and their son Raul Jr, 3. Hernandez wrote on Facebook, “The truth is I cried, not because of how the babies would look because we knew we would do our best to give them the best and most productive life posible [sic], I cried because the doctor said we had to understand”.

According to her, doctor told them that they have to accept that once the babies were born they could die.