Image copyright Family photo Image caption Rachel and Steven Park's triplets spent the first few months of their lives in hospital 
 
 Tributes are being paid to a mother of triplets who died after spending her first Christmas at home with her children. Rachel Park 39, and her husband had hailed their children as Christmas miracles after they were allowed home for the first time in ten months after they were born prematurely. But it has emerged today that Rachel died suddenly at home in Bransty, Whitehaven, on Tuesday, says after talking about how excited she was for Christmas. Online appeals have been launched to help Mrs Park's husband Steven care for the youngsters who were born 14 weeks early. Police have described Rachel's death as "unexplained but not suspicious", the BBC reported. Julie Hodgson, of Dearham, wrote on Facebook: “We have set up a PayPal account to try and raise money and give her beautiful family the support they need now, and in the coming months.  Tiny triplets who spent months in hospital are home in time for Christmas 
 
 Weighing a combined weight of two bags of sugar at birth, miracle triplets Poppie, Mollie and Evelyn Park faced a fight for their lives. It is up to them, and how much of a fighter they are’.” 
 
 She also told the News and Star last week how the family was “ looking forward to Christmas, there’s toys everywhere!” 
 
 Following the news of Rachel's death, tributes have now been paid to the mum. (Image: CHRIS NEILL/MAVERICK PHOTOGRAPHY) 
 
 Lucy Dawson told BBC Cumbria: "Rachel had the girls back in March this year and I fell pregnant with triplets just after. Image copyright Family photo Image caption The Parks said they had been looking forward to celebrating the triplets' first Christmas at home 
 
 "I got in touch with Rachel online and she supported me through every step because she knew what I was going through. I wouldn't be where I am without her support. "She was a good friend to me and a good support to other ladies who had triplets in the area and across the UK as well." Born at 26 weeks, the sisters spent 111 days in hospital as their parents Steven and Rachel were “told to prepare for the worst”. “I just wanted them out and to know they were OK.” 
 
 Due to heavy sedation and an infection, the new mum – who needed three transfusions – didn’t see her daughters for three days. “It was touch and go with all three at some point but they’re all out of hospital and fine now.
– A UK mother who made the news for having extremely premature triplet girls who all survived has herself died unexpectedly. Rachel Park, who died at age 39 just days after taking her 9-month-old babies home from the hospital for Christmas, became pregnant after six years of trying with her husband, Steven, and on her fourth round of IVF. "She idolized those little girls," her husband said. "They were her world." The cause of death is still unknown, but police say the circumstances are not suspicious, reports the BBC. During the pregnancy, Park, a Type 1 diabetic, developed pre-eclampsia, and her blood pressure got so high that her kidneys and liver began to fail. At just 24 weeks' pregnant, she was sent to a hospital in Newcastle 100 miles from her home, where she suffered what the Mirror calls "a serious bleed." Doctors found a problem with blood flowing to the placenta, and performed an emergency C-section when the triplets were 26 weeks and five days along. Due June 12, the girls were put on ventilators upon their birth on March 11 and, weighing 5 pounds combined, spent two months fighting for their lives. "It was touch and go with all three at some point," Rachel told the News & Star just a week ago. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Steven and his daughters Poppie, Mollie, and Evelyn. (Just days before the Park triplets were born in the UK, a mother of newborn triplets died in Kansas.)