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Joy Times Four
One Mom's Story of Delivering Quadruplets
By Teri Brown
There were 32 people in the delivery room. Besides her mother and mother-in-law, there was Christina's doctor with at least three residents and half a dozen nurses. Each baby had his own team of nurses and neonatal experts. "I was wheeled into the operating room at about 4 p.m., and the babies were born at 4:33, 4:34, 4:34 and 4:35," she says. "Pat arrived about 4:45. Like any mother giving birth to premature babies, I was so afraid that I wouldn't hear them crying when they came out. When they did, it was the most beautiful sound in the world."
Parker was 4 pounds, 1.7 ounces, and his twin, Peyton, weighed 4 pounds, 6 ounces. The next set of twins to be born was Christian at 3 pounds, 9.5 ounces, and his twin, Camden at 3 pounds, 8 ounces.
Soon after the first set of twins arrived home from the hospital and before the other set was strong enough to be discharged, Patrick was sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Coping with quads alone was a challenge for Christina, but her mother moved in with her, and she had help from friends. But the most important thing for her were the messages of encouragement from Patrick.
"My husband has been a rock that has been there to lean on," she says. "There are lots of phone calls and e-mails from Patrick telling me how he supports me and what a great job I'm doing. I'm just counting the months for him to come home!"
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Quadruplets by christy and wayne on 02/13/2010 11:02PM
i first went to the dr and they told me i was haveing twins and the skock of that was a big one sence i already have twins and then less than a week later i was told i was going to have to set of twin. what a joy but o my god 4 twins were hard 4 pray for me