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daan writes: Yesterday the first baby with three parents was born in the Newcastle University Hospital to parents Simon Sayes, Robin Byron, and Michelle Gaye, according to British scientists who followed the story since its conception. Baby Tryst, at a healthy 3400 grams, appeared normal in all respects in cursory physicals, according to government doctors, but reporters interviewing hospital staff found them unsettled by mysterious centipede-like birthmarks scattered over the baby’s body and cylindrical nodules protruding from either side of her neck.

There has been intense public speculation into the relationship between the three parents. Reporters for The Guardian managed to corner Mr. Sayes in a loo for a short exchange, the only one so far granted the press. On the delicate matter of activities leading up to conception, Mr. Sayes responded that it was a private matter. When pressed he mercurially replied that much of it proceeded “much as it would with anyone else” but that Ms. Gaye’s contribution was necessarily preceded by an intensive acrobatics education.