A 'miracle' mum gave birth to triplets after a devastating miscarriage.
Niketa Bell vowed a second round of IVF would be her last after trying to conceive for four years.
The 25-year-old NHS worker struggled to fall pregnant after her husband Mark discovered a congenital defect.
But she gave IVF 'one last shot' and fell pregnant again last September, after suffering a miscarriage at 12 weeks in May, 2018.
Niketa said: "I always said I would never go through IVF again because of how hard it was. It is tough and emotional.
"After the first round I told Mark I never really wanted to go through with it again.
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"It took such a toll on my body with the drugs and everything else.
It was a whirlwind of emotions.
"I told myself it would be the final time, that this was the final chance."
The overjoyed couple, of Carlisle, Cumbria, welcomed their triplets into the world eight weeks early by emergency Caesarean section at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary on April 7.
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Lola Frances was first born, weighing just 3lbs, followed by identical twin brothers Jacob Douglas and Tommy James, who weighed 3lb 8oz and 3lb 10oz respectively.
They were transferred to James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
Now they are at home after being discharged. Niketa, who works as a healthcare assistant at Cumberland Infirmary where the triplets were initially cared for at the special care baby unit, said: "It didn't sink in until I actually saw them in the incubator and I thought 'they are mine.'
'I gave birth to my own triplet grandchildren when I was 55'
"We are finally a mam and dad'. We are totally blessed."
Driver Mark was making a delivery when Niketa rang to tell him news of the triplets after her first scan.
She told him 'you had better switch off the engine'.
"I just didn't believe it," said Mark, 30.
"I said in bed the other night: 'you do realise we have three kids?'.
"Words can't describe it....it's like a dream and you keep thinking you will wake up."
