Imagine thinking you may never be able to have a child, only to end up having more than you only wish you can have.
After years of trying to get pregnant, a Houston couple was on the verge of giving up on their dream of having a child and was close to considering adoption. Unbeknownst to them, the universe had something incredibly heartwarming in store for them.
Lauren and David Perkins were a happily married couple who lived in Houston. Like most couples, they dreamed of starting a family and hearing their house echo with children’s cackles.
Lauren had always wanted to become a mother, and she spent a year trying to conceive. However, she wasn’t successful and didn’t know what to do to rectify the situation.
One day, she and her husband decided to take a vacation to find more clarity regarding their next step. So, without second thoughts, the Perkinses packed their bags and embarked on a trip to Nicaragua.
After expressing their troubles to others, a pastor told her: “Someone up there has big plans for you. I don’t know what, but it will be big,” according to a personal account she wrote on Houston Moms Blog.
“Okay…that was just a strange thing to tell someone,” Lauren said.
Later, they attempted fertility treatment. “So, we did the procedure and the 2 week wait. I got the call…and I was pregnant!!! But the nurse told me my beta levels were quite high, so it’s likely to be multiples. What?! Multiples?! That’s crazy! They wanted more blood work done to double check things,” she said.
When she went in for an ultrasound, the doctor expressed shock and awe. “We knew something was up when we saw the doctor’s jaw drop… he had seen six babies! Our feelings range from excited, overwhelmed, and scared, all at the same time,” she recalled to the Daily Mail.
On April 23, Lauren was in week 30 and taken to the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where she delivered sextuplets (three boys and three girls) born ten weeks premature.
Her babies, Andrew, Benjamin, Caroline, Leah, Allison, and Levi, all weighed between one and two pounds at birth. Per sources, Lauren’s pregnancy was actually one in four billion cases. The new mother expressed:
“I didn’t expect to see my babies until the next day, but each baby’s team rolled them by me one by one on their way up to the NICU, and I got to touch their little fingers.”
The infants were not healthy enough to be with their mom and dad for a few days. Allison was the first baby who stabilized on her fourth day, and Lauren lovingly looked back on the feeling of holding her little girl. She said:
“And that moment, when I got to hold my baby, was when I became a mother…of sextuplets.”
The little ones survived the critical phase and slowly recovered. After many intense weeks of being cared for by the neonatal staff, the Perkinses were able to hold their pack of six.
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Sources: OpposingViews, Little Things
