Mom Dies Having Triplets is a Christmas heartbreak of a news story as 28-year old Andrue Smith, pictured below, is left to raise triplet boys alone after his wife Debbie died tragically while having triplets 45 days before her due date.

Here’s the “Mom Dies Having Triplets” news story from NBC’s KVOA affiliate in Tuscon, Arizona:
A Tucson father has three reasons to celebrate. Andrue Smith’s wife recently gave birth to triplet boys.But tragically, his wife died after the babies were born.
Andrue is now struggling to cope with the loss of his wife and raising the babies on his own.
They’re daddy’s little boys. Legend, Tristian and Jaisyn were born six weeks premature, a week ago today.
“All I wanted was a son,” he told us.
You can see the love in Andrue’s eyes. Love, and sorrow, because his wife Debbie will never see her babies.
Andrue says, out of the blue, his wife got deathly ill. Doctors saved the boys, but couldn’t save her.
“My wife’s heart had stopped beating. Her body suffered and her brain suffered… It’s not the kind of thing people will recover from.”
So Andrue made the difficult decision to discontinue life support.
“It’s going to be hard, very hard. I can’t imagine a life without her.”
Numb, this 28 year old single father of three is trying.
“My wife, I know she’d expect me to be strong and she’d want me to take care of those kids.”
Andrew has a full-time construction job, but questions whether he earns enough to afford childcare. And if he quits his job, how will he pay his mortgage?
“Absolutely anything anybody can help out with or contribute, I’d be very happy to accept anything. I’ve got my babies, my three boys to worry about, and that’s what’s keeping me strong.”
Andrew calls them daddy’s little army.
If you’d like to help the Smith Family, you can drop off items such as diapers, clothes and car seats at Victory Assembly of God Church, at 2561 W. Ruthrauff Rd., Tucson AZ, 85705-1853.
A memorial fund has been set-up as well. If you’d like to donate to that, just go to any Wells Fargo Bank and donate to the Debra L. Smith Family Memorial Fund.
If you are wiring money from outside the Tucson area, please tell your local Wells Fargo banker to send your donation to account number 8453610233 through routing number 121000248.
Please do whatever you can this Christmas holiday season to help out the three young triplets who will never know how much their mother loved them…
And that’s the sad Christmas story of Mom dies having triplets.
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December 7th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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December 9th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
So sad.. it’s tragic, it really is. My prayers go out to the family and friends.
I wonder.. What illness struck her suddenly?
God bless~
December 11th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
May Debra Rest in Peace..my sister almost died giving birth to her triplet boys who were born at 24 weeks..But God is Great, and only He knows why some make it and some don’t. I will always keep Andrew and his 3 angels in my prayers…May God give them a life of health and happiness…
December 14th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
i live in tucson, it has been a crazy couple of weeks for man. i will keep him and his family in my thoughts.
December 6th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
sooo sad….