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The couple, who already have a son, had conceived the triplets naturally, so they were not expecting to see three heartbeats on the sonogram.

Ashley Alexander told WRTV-TV she has a plan to tell the girls apart.

\"I'm painting their nails,\" she said. \"One's going to be pink, one purple, and the other probably pale blue.\"

Dr. William Gilbert, the director of women's services for Sutter Health in Sacramento, California, said in an earlier interview with ABC News there was no definite rate for the number of identical triplets born every year.

\"It's hard to calculate a conservative estimate,\" Gilbert said about the rate of naturally conceived identical triplets. \"One in 70,000 - that would be on the low end. The high end is one in a million.\"

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