Having children is one of the most rewarding, yet challenging things a person can do. Most people don’t even think of the possibility of having more than one kid at a time, but some people end up having twins, triplets, or even quadruplets. Like this woman, who was told she was having triplets and actually ended up having four identical quadruplets.
This is so rare, can you imagine having three other people that looked exactly like you?!
These parents were shocked when the doctor said they’d have triplets, only two find out they were really having identical quadruplets
Jenny and Chris Marr, are new parents that got the shock of a lifetime when they were told they were having triplets. An even bigger shock came when they went back to the doctor a week later, that’s when they found out they would actually be having 4 identical boys.
Twins, triplets, and quadruplets, usually come from families that have a history of them in their genes, but in this case Jenny and Chris are both only children which makes it even rarer.
Identical quadruplets like this are so rare, there are only around 72 documented cases of them
Just to give us a better idea of how rare it is to have spontaneous identical twins with no fertility treatment, Dr. Lauren Murry told CBS News this only happens in about 1 in 11 million births.
The quadruplets were born March 15th at the Texas Health Dallas Hospital, the four brothers were born prematurely at 7 months and spent ten weeks in the NICU before they all came home as healthy as can be. The identical quadruplets were named; Hudson, Harrison, Henry, and Hardy.
Jenny and Chris were understandably overwhelmed because of everything going on with the Coronavirus
As if having four babies at once isn’t enough, the Marr’s sat down in an interview to explain how stressful it was having them amidst COVID-19.
“It’s a different world we live in now, and it’s really interesting to be going through all of this. I mean we literally started, gave birth on the day the pandemic broke out.” Jenny told CBS News 11, in an interview with Inside Edition she said: “Nobody could come and see you in the hospital, and, nobody could see our babies.”
The new parents say the identical quadruplets already have a deep bond with each other
We’ve all heard about the unworldly bond that twins have, which Chris and Jenny say the four brothers definitely have.
“They love each other, they love to be around each other, they actually behave a lot better when they’re around each other.” The couple told Inside Editon
Being identical quadruplets, Lauren admits it’s a bit of a challenge to recognize who is who
Even though they already have a system of keeping them in order, sometimes it gets confusing and they get the boys mixed up. I guess we have to give them some slack, I think anyone would mix up their four children if they all looked the exact same.
Their story went viral, with people all over sharing the identical quadruplets. The Inside Edition video has been viewed over 321k times on YouTube, with 10k liking it and over 1k leaving comments. To see the identical babies for yourself, watch the video below!
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