Bed shortages mean parents face 140-mile trip to see newborn triplets at THREE different hospitals

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But what they hadn't expected was a 140-mile round trip to visit their children.

A lack of beds is the reason why the newborns had to be placed in three different hospitals.

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Visiting time: Amee and Andrew on their wedding day. The couple face having to travel to three hospitals to see their children

The triplets were born eight weeks premature at the Rosie Maternity Unit in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, but there was only one available bed at the stretched special care unit.

The other two babies were taken to special care baby units at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk.

A spokesman for Addenbrooke's said: "It is disappointing to have to split babies up but we must balance the clinical needs of all babies who may need our specialist care.

"After birth the parents were updated regularly and, with their agreement, two of the babies were moved to neo-natal network hospitals.

"We are very sympathetic to the family and appreciate the anxiety that this situation has caused them.

"We are delighted that the triplets are doing well and we hope that they will be soon be re-united in one hospital."

The triplets were born on March 11. Amee from Hartford, Cambridgeshire, has since been discharged from Addenbrooke's.