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REGINA — A Saskatchewan woman who had to perform CPR on one of her newborn triplets while still in labour with the other two says all three babies are doing awesome.

Danielle Johnston said her triplets, Karlee, Liam and Jack, are in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Regina hospital and will stay there for another two weeks.

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“No adverse effects on Karlee at all, and they’re all just so strong and healthy,” Johnston said Friday.

Johnston started getting wicked contractions on her bathroom floor at their house near Griffin, about 130 kilometres southeast of Regina, on July 16. Just hours earlier at a doctor’s appointment, Johnston was told everything looked good for 32 weeks.

Karlee was born soon after, although Johnston noticed that the tiny baby’s breathing wasn’t right.

“Her breathing was really shallow and lagging, so I just gave her CPR and pumped her chest until the ambulance came,” Johnston said.