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“It sounds horrible to say, but I don’t know if it was necessarily tears of joy,” Chris told the Washington Post. “We were completely overwhelmed and, frankly, terrified.”
Labor began early, as is often the case with multiples, at 28.5 weeks gestation at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jenny underwent a C-section and on March 15, babies Harrison (2 pounds, 6 ounces), Hardy (2 pounds, 10 ounces), Henry (2 pounds, 6.7 ounces), and Hudson (1 pound, 15 ounces) were born within three minutes.
“It’s incredible,” said Jenny. “We called them our baby birds because they really looked like baby birds.”
All of the boys spent about 10 weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit, according to TODAY, with three of them needing oxygen support. They were discharged in May, and their parents have special ways of telling them apart.
“They each have little bitty characteristics,” explained Chris. “When we sit down and look at them we can figure out who they are but if you just look at them from a distance, they all look the same.”
“It was kind of hard to wrap our head around but we’re doing good with it,” said Jenny. “It’s fun, it’s exciting. To be able to share these little miracles… it’s just been really special.”