First off, Huge congratulations to her, she's just signed up for the most exhausting, challenging, difficult ride of her life, but it's also the most rewarding, exhilarating and amazing thing that will ever happen to her.
How is her pregnancy going so far? Has she had any problems or is it all going well? With my triplets, I carried just past 35 weeks without complications or bedrest and they were in NICU 15 days, 10 days and 9 days (in birth order). With the twins, I carried for just shy of 37weeks and they came home 2 days later with no intervention at all , so I don't know how connected everything is. Mars might know?
Okeydokey then, down to business!
First piece of advice, tell your friend to be prepared to become an instant celebrity. If she wants to pop to the shop to get some milk, tell her to give 30 minutes time extra, just for all the gawking she'll receive! That's something that I found really hard when I first had the triplets so if she's had time to prepare it will be so much better.
Try not to let her fall into the trap of believing every word that health professionals say, I did at first and I was convinced that I wouldn't be able to look after triplets and I was so scared.
Tell her that she must accept help wherever it's offered. Even a five minute respite some days will be all she needs. Nannies are expensive, but she could sign on to a local uni or college website, and ask for someone. Or she could get some teenagers in, I do, I never leave my kids alone with them, but they can play with them for a while and leave me to do something else. She probably knows this from having twins, but it's easy to forget.
Tell her to remember that people often say things without thinking and she should take everything with a pinch of salt - They probably don't have experience of what she's going through.
Ok, onto strollers, personally I wouldn't get a huge stroller, a triplet stroller gets so much attention without it being a quintuplet and I don't like that much attention.
I'd buy 2 different strollers, a triplet and a twin. Or if I was going out on my own a lot I'd have a triplet stroller and a sling - this would lower her profile and she'd be able to sell it easier later on. There are also double slings available, which she might like to look at, I haven't tried them, so I can't give advice on them - my triplets were 3.7 when I had the twins, and they're all great at walking, so it wasn't a problem we really had to contend with - sorry!
I'd also get one that doubles as car seats, like the triple decker stroller, otherwise, she'll be at the mercy of sleeping babies!
Other stuff:
Crib sheets are an absolute must, they save sooo much time.
Later on she might like to think about getting a crib tent My trio taught each other how to climb out of the crib and these kept my mini escapists in bed.
Love this idea, you could buy 1 as a present for her!
Just think, now she can have a playgroup without even leaving the house
Right, I've got to run, one of my babies is crying and I've ignored her long enough while I wrote this essay
Hope this helps her, do try to get her on here, it would be nice to speak with someone as mental as me!