Texas woman, 34, gives birth to '15million to one' identical QUADRUPLETS trends now
A woman in Texas has given birth to 'mind-blowingly' rare identical quadruplets - a major surprise for her third pregnancy.
Already a mother of two, Mercedes Sandhu, 34, and her husband Jonathan, 37, welcomed Hannah Grace, Lucy Marie, Rebecca Claire, and Petra Anne on May 1 without the help of IVF - a one in 15million event.
The babies are in the hospital receiving nutrition through a feeding tube and breathing with the help of a CPAP machine.
Mrs Sandhu did not believe her doctor at first when they told her about what she described as ‘four little blobs’ on her ultrasound scan; neither did her husband. He kept asking her over the phone if she was joking.
The Texas couple, both engineers, have two sons, Luke, 3, and Aaron, 18 months
Mercedes Sandhu gave birth to four identical babies on May 1. They weighed a little over two pounds and will remain in the neonatal intensive care unit until at least July
Giving birth to four identical babies without the help of fertility medicine is extremely rare. There are only about 72 documented cases ever and only a handful of cases in the US.
Multiple-baby pregnancies almost always result in babies being born prematurely, before 37 weeks, requiring them to remain in the hospital sometimes up to months.
Quadruplets are the result of a single fertilized egg splitting into four embryos
Multiple-birth babies are also more likely to be born with some congenital birth effects, including spina bifida.
Hannah Grace, Lucy Marie, Rebecca Claire, and Petra Anne were born weighing between two pounds seven ounces and two pounds 13 ounces.
Having multiple babies in a womb gets crowded, which means the babies may not grow as expected.
Their small size also results from the placenta, which supplies blood to all four fetuses, which
