Three little miracles reunite 17 years later at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

On 8 January 2006 Anna and Andy Collier’s triplets – identical twin girls Isabel and Emily and their brother Ben – were born prematurely at just 29 weeks at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

17 years later, the family have come back to the hospital to reunite with the surgeon who delivered the triplets, head consultant and lead nurse of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the time.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Chelsea and Westminster provides specialist care for babies born prematurely or who have other problems after birth.

At the time, all three babies weighed in at less than three pounds and were immediately rushed to NICU where they spent the next 101 days fighting for their lives.

The couple set up the charity “Three Little Miracles" and have raised over £250,000 to buy medical equipment as their way of saying thank you to the staff on NICU whose expertise saved the lives of their triplets.

Anna says: “If it wasn’t for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, our babies would not be alive today. The care we received from the doctors and nurses on NICU was fantastic. They work long hours in a highly pressurised environment but they were brilliant.”