The Hialeah Heartbeat of Miami pregnancy help clinic had a triple slam dunk during the month of March.
Heartbeat of Miami;s press release noted the “March Madness” in college basketball was also true in pregnancy care.
Executive director Martha Avila said she had been in the center’s boutique on the phone one day in March with a representative from the Florida Pregnancy Care Network. An ultrasound was taking place in the next room.
“All at once, I heard this commotion,” Avila told Pregnancy Help News during a phone interview.
She put her caller on hold to see what was happening.
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The women in the next room were shouting with shock and joy. Not only had a baby been discovered on the screen, but three babies were visible.
Triplets.
According to the release:
“When (the mom) came to us she was very high risk for abortion,” Avila said.
“(The client) had been in a relationship with her boyfriend for three years, living with her mother, but now, facing this unexpected news, she didn’t know what to do. The timing just didn’t feel right. When the pregnancy test came back positive, her heart sank, but after a long, heartfelt counseling session, (the client) bravely agreed to have the ultrasound we offered to confirm if the pregnancy was viable.”
The ultrasound revealed three babies at seven weeks, four days gestation.
Heartbeat of Miami provided a video of the client who is Cuban and a Spanish speaker.
She said, “I still cannot believe it!”
Heartbeat of Miami’s release stated that everyone in the room, the staff, client and the client's mother, was in tears.
“The sound of three tiny heartbeats filled the room, the proof of life that brought tears to everyone’s eyes,” the release said.
The client Facetimed her boyfriend, the father of the babies, who also cried as he saw the images.
Avilla said many of the women who come to their clinic are from Cuba.
“Cuba calls abortion a ‘deregulation,’” Avila said, noting it is a “very atheist country.”
“We told her, ‘See how God does things?’” Avila said.
Avilla said the client’s mother was a support for her, and Avila was not surprised.
“In Cuban families there is a lot of support from the grandmothers,” she said. “You could see both of them crying. It was very emotional.”
Heartbeat of Miami provided the new mom of multiples with referrals for emergency medical assistance, the name of a high-risk pregnancy provider, diapers and prenatal vitamins. They are prepared to keep in touch with this growing family.
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This is proof once more of the ever-present help of pregnancy help centers. Heartbeat of Miami has beaten the odds of its enemies who tried to destroy the image of one of its locations in 2022 after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
They are a network that relies on God to fight their battles and provide victory for life, Avila said.
“God lines up everything for His honor and His glory,” Avila said, “It’s not like we say to women, ‘Ok, have your baby, goodbye.’ God provides for us in our hardest scenarios.”
This is not the first set of triplets to come out of the Heartbeat of Miami offices. The center has been present in five locations for 18 years. This client’s “March Madness” is the fifth trio staff has witnessed within its locations.
“Our first set of triplets just turned 11 years old,” Avila said, adding mom was 47 at the time, making history at the University of Miami Hospital.
“We are all still friends,” she said of the first family, “and (staff members) were there when the triplets were born.”
