Delivering joy

The birth of triplets at a Coeur d’Alene hospital happens once a generation.So, it’s front-page news in this former timber town when it occurs.On March 15, 2001, Rebecca Brooks, 25, of Post Falls, delivered 5-pound triplets at Kootenai Medical Center. Kalli, Kayne and Kiel appeared in the paper two days later.They joined a family that included father, Wayne, and 5- and 3-year-old sisters.Veteran staffers couldn’t recall another set of triplets born in the previous 25 years at what is now Kootenai Health. Nor did hospital records reveal one.But venerable Dr. Jane Gumprecht told The Press that she helped her husband, Dr. Don Gumprecht, deliver triplets in the mid-1950s at the old Lake City General Hospital downtown.