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(From left) Dan and Natalie Zundel, of Clinton, hold their triplets — Airalyn, Brecklin and Camli — while Erin and Nick Clark, of Layton hold their triplets — Gavin, Aidan and Jordan — on Wednesday at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Triplets times two at Ogden hospital

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 5:41am

OGDEN — The father of the triplet girls joked about looking forward to arranged marriages of his daughters to triplet boys, to get the weddings over with simultaneously.

Triplet births of the same gender are rare enough, yet here soon after came triplet boys born in the same hospital.

The neonatologist decided they needed to meet.

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Jennifer Graham poses for a portrait Thursday with her husband, Cory, and their 6-month-old, Scarlett, at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. Scarlett stopped breathing and turned blue at the hospital when she was only a few hours old, but using the Cool Cap lowered the baby’s temperature and helped to preserve her brain function. Scarlett is developmentally on track today, her mother says. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Cap improves survival rate of oxygen-deprived infants

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 7:18am

OGDEN -- Scarlett Graham entered the world just before 8 a.m. on July 13, 2011, and for the next nine hours, Cory and Jennifer Graham's newest bundle of joy was a happy, healthy newborn. Then Scarlett stopped breathing.

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Tales of the NICU, romance via newspaper and demon rum

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 10:47pm

Some random stuff that piled up while everyone focused on my beard:

My column about the Newborn Intensive Care Unit and my grandson Max brought this letter from Edythe Kuhn, of Ogden:

"Over 29 years ago, our oldest son was born and spent time in the NICU at McKay-Dee Hospital. The hardest thing I have ever done as a mother was to leave the hospital without the baby I had been expecting for nine months.

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