Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids A mother's joy at becoming pregnant with triplets turned to heartache when two of her three babies died days apart due to a common virus she contracted during pregnancy.
Vicci Dunne and husband Paul were overjoyed when IVF treatment was a success after two previous miscarriages - and were elated to discover it was triplets.
But the couple were later given the heartbreaking news from medics during their scans that two out of the three babies were not growing and to "prepare for the worst", the Echo reports.
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