Mom has quadruplets without using fertility, then doctor notices something special

When Jenny Marr’s obstetrician had an odd expression on her face during the first ultrasound, Jenny Marr may have been excused for thinking there was a problem with her unborn child.

She had no idea how drastically Dr. Lauren Murray would alter both her and her partner’s lives.

Everyone who has seen a sonographer while expecting a baby understands how both anxious and thrilling it can be.

It is really emotional to see anything appear on that black screen and realize it is a living thing. However, it was all of those things and much more for Jenny Marr and her companion Chris.

The Grapevine, Texas, couple had been trying to conceive for some months when they first met.

But when Jenny did become pregnant, Chris and she experienced the shock of their lives at a routine ultrasound. Jenny discovered she wasn’t carrying a single child at that point.

Jenny explained: “I was like, ‘Oh no, there’s no heartbeat.’ And, she’s like, ‘No, there is a heartbeat.’ She goes, ‘Y’all, there’s three babies in there.’ And we were just absolutely floored.”

Naturally astonished, Jenny and her companion Chris discovered more surprises. On November 19, 2019, a week after their initial appointment, they went to see a maternal-fetal medicine specialist for a follow-up visit.

The ultrasound technician gave them the same strange look.

“The tech — who was doing the initial (scan) — she gave me a funny look. We were like, ‘Oh what’s going on now?’ We got worried again,’” Chris explained.

“She was really cute. She said, ‘I’m not supposed to say this, but y’all got four babies.’”

They had gone from expecting one baby to learning they were having FOUR in just seven days.

Chris said: “I made the joke that I am not coming back because there are going to be five babies next time. We were just shocked. Jumping from three to four was easier to swallow. Just after that we heard they were healthy.”

According to Dr. Lauren Murray and her associates, there are between 1 in 11 million and 1 in 15 million births that result in identical, spontaneous quadruplets. incredibly uncommon, to put it simply.

“It’s unbelievable. It’ll never happen again in my career. I said, ‘Girl, go buy a few lottery tickets because those are the kind of odds we’re dealing with,’” Murray said. “What a miracle it was.”

It turned out that the four kids were perfectly prepared to share, despite the possibility that one of them would take nutrition away from the others, necessitating surgery and creating issues.

“The babies shared incredibly well. There were no incidents on the sonogram even leading up to that where we were worried that one of them, or two or three of them, would be significantly smaller,” Murray said.

Jenny had birth at 28.5 weeks on March 15 as a result. Despite her best efforts, she was forced to deliver before 33 weeks. Although the babies were born at the start of the coronavirus mayhem, her C-section went smoothly.

First to arrive was baby Harrison, who weighed 2 pounds, 6 ounces. Following Hudson, who weighed 1 pound 15 ounces, came Hardy, who weighed 2 pounds 10 ounces, followed by Henry, who weighed 2 pounds 6.7 ounces.

“They were all born in three minutes. It’s incredible,” Jenny said. “We called them our baby birds because they really looked like baby birds.”