Finding out that you are having multiples is always a surprise, but finding out that you’re in labor with triplets when you didn’t even know you were pregnant, well that’s the mother of all surprises.

It happened to Dannette Glitz of South Dakota on August 10. The Associated Press reports she had no idea she was pregnant and thought the pain she was experiencing was kidney stones.

“I never felt movement, I never got morning sickness, nothing!” Glitz explains in a social media post.

“Well this was a huge shock”

When Glitz posted photos of her triplets to her Facebook page last week one of her friends was confused. “What? You really had triplets?” they asked.

Glitz (who has two older children) started getting pain in her back and sides in the days before the birth, but it felt like the kidney stones she had previously experienced so she brushed it off. Eventually, she was in so much pain all she could do was lay in bed and cry.

“It hurt to move and even breath[e],” she wrote, explaining that she decided to go to an Urgent Care clinic, “thinking I’m going to have to have surgery to break the stones up.”

A pregnancy test at Urgent Care revealed Glitz was pregnant—that was the first surprise. The second surprise happened when a heart monitor revealed the possibility of twins.

‘I need another blanket, there’s a third’

Glitz was transferred to a regional hospital in Spearfish, South Dakota. “And in about 2 hours they confirmed twins as there was 2 heart beats,” she writes.

Glitz was 34 weeks along and four centimeters dilated. She was transferred again, rushed by ambulance to the hospital in Rapid City and prepped for a C-section. When the C-section was happening she heard the doctor announce that Baby A was a boy and Baby B was a girl.

“Then [the doctor] yells ‘I need another blanket, there’s a third’ ….I ended up having triplets, 1 boy [and] 2 girls,” Glitz writes.

Glitz and her husband Austin named their surprise children Blaze, Gypsy and Nikki and each of the trio weighed about 4 pounds at birth. Because the couple’s older children are school-aged, they didn’t have any baby stuff at home. Friends quickly rallied, raising over $2,000 via a Facebook fundraiser to help the family with unexpected expenses.

A family of seven

The family is getting used to their new normal and is so thankful for the community support and donations. “It’s amazing in a small town how many people will come together for stuff that’s not expected,” Glitz told KOTA TV.

Her oldest, 10-year-old Ronnie, is pretty happy about a trio of siblings showing up suddenly.

“One time I seen a shooting star and I wished for a baby brother, and I wished for like two sisters for my little sister because she always wanted a little sister, I knew this day was always going to come,” Ronnie told TV reporters.

Ronnie may not have been surprised, but everyone else in this story certainly was.

Congratulations to Danette and her family! You’ve got this, mama.