We Tried For One Baby - Guess How Many Arrived? | MY EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY

I gave birth to four babies at the age of 50

I wanted twins. I ended up having quadruplets. We're all six. Same birthdays and we're born all together

My quadruplets are actually younger than some of my grandkids. I was getting messages, why would you want kids at 50

You're never going to see your kids grow up. We've asked the audience what they think of parents having children in their 50s

Could you respond to their comments? Okey dokey. Very selfish to try and have a baby at 50

come and look at my kids and then say it's selfish because there's no selfish about it

We had two boys and we decided to try again for a baby girl and we went to the ultrasound

and we were told there were five heartbeats instead of one. I think I might have cried for

about an hour. I was thinking I'm five foot one. Where are all these babies gonna go and how is

this gonna work? Our family went from four to nine overnight. So what's been the most famous

Uh, no, no. We tried for a girl and got for a girl

I'm like, what? Quadruplets? I'm like, wow, this is so amazing. He was grabbing the wall like, is there some water somewhere

I'm like, oh, my goodness. People say we're lying about IVF treatment

How do you feel about these two sharing their life on social media

We tried for a girl and four babies arrived. He's arrived. Going from three to seven was a huge change for us

Around seven weeks they told me triplets. We had already processed it and they were like

you're actually having four. The doctors was asking me, did I do any fertility treatments

I'm like, wouldn't it be in my file? People were saying mean stuff, saying that we're on government assistance

They're just assuming that we're just out here, just want to have a million babies. My friends and family were very shocked

I'm still shocked. Y'all got four babies. I didn't think y'all would have any more kids

Do you want to have any more children? Let me get you a pacifier, because you about to cut up

I see it. Where's the pacifier go? Oh, here it goes. My name is Ronjera, and I am a mom of quadruplets

You're in the pacifier. You guys, yeah. I'm Carla. That's my mom

That's my daddy. I want four pieces. Hmm? Go sit down. That's Chris and my brother, and that's my little brother

and those are all of my siblings. Did you always want a big family

I did not. I did not want a big family. I think, max, I wanted three kids

and my husband only wanted one. So you want chicken nuggets for breakfast? Chicken nuggets, fries, and bacon

We got married at 18 to 19 years old, and so we've literally been raising kids since we got married

Going from three to seven was a huge change for us. How does the start of your day compare to before you had class

We have to figure out balance because before, of course, you know, all of our other kids are older, so we're able to kind of just get up and go

Now we've just figured out a method to where she just gets up a little bit earlier since I'm going to work

We have truly tried to really lean into each other. Communication is everything

When you're finishing your breakfast, we're going to start homeschooling, okay? I got to go to work, so I'll see y'all later

Christian, you are not about to eat all that food. Yes. Day-to-day life is unpredictable

but I try to at least have a schedule sometimes. Can gladly take him

By the time it's time to start school, the quads have already eight

then I can go ahead and transition to starting homeschooling. And typically I'll have to have at least one baby

Right now there isn't a great balance between it, but I just make it work with the time that I have

Like right now they're quiet, they're chill, so let's do school. Okay

21 verse 8. I really enjoy homeschooling and I feel like it helps them to be..

I keep losing my focus. How did the older boys react when he told them

So, I remember Carlos just looked at me shocked. Like, he just looked at me

And then Christian, he's like, four plus three, that's seven. He's like, mommy's gonna have seven babies

Tell us what your new brothers and sisters are like. Guys, so they're like, they're sweet

The boys are amazing. They love their baby brothers and sisters. I don't feel like there's any jealousy

Be gentle. Be gentle, partner, dad. They help me out a lot around the house

Most of the time, I don't have to ask. They truly love doing it. Good job, Carlos

How far along were you when you found out there were going to be pods? Around seven weeks, they told me triplets

We had already processed it. We was okay with it. And they were like, no, you're actually having four

I'm laughing because there's four. What? Yeah. I thought they said three

No, there's four. Are you going to pass out? No. As soon as they told me, I came home and I walked two miles

And I cried going a mile down and a mile back. What's wrong

What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong, sweet pea? I believe it was my husband's response

that truly helped comfort me in that moment. I was like, what are we gonna do

And he was like, we're gonna take care of him. And honestly, it still hasn't hit me yet

Like every day I still look at them and I'm just like, I cannot believe I carry quads

Mr. Dimple Man. Hi, so nice, pretty girl. I love their outfits

Thank you. Is that fun for you? Yeah, I love Courtney. Well, especially because I got girls

After having three boys, that's exciting. We have been hoping and praying for a little girl

for about eight years now. I love my boys dearly, but I truly wanted to know

what it feels like to have a little girl. I surely did not expect quadruplets

The girls' outfits, they have matching everything. And then the boys, I try to coordinate them as well

a matching shirt. We get a lot of release support from our online community

A lot of people help out with donating things. Before I got pregnant with the Quads

I had an interior designer page, and I had a page that I would use for my salon doing hair

Okay, she can go in the front. And then when I got pregnant with the Quads

I realized that I would no longer be able to do hair or do interior design

and so I branched off into being a content creator. When I shared online that I was having quads, a lot of people were shocked

I got a lot of people saying, like, no way. And I'm like, I wouldn't lie about something like that

I have a lot of people that ask me, did I do any fertility treatments or anything like that

And it was all natural and spontaneous. The doctor shocked. Actually, the doctors was asking me, did I do any fertility treatments

I'm like, wouldn't it be in my file? A lot of people think that I'm lying and that I did IVF

They do not believe it's natural. People were saying mean stuff, saying that we're on government assistance and stop using the government

and just assuming that we're just out here, just want to have a million babies. And that wasn't the case

I had to be very careful with not internalizing how people felt towards it, the negative towards it

and put it on me like, oh, wow, yeah, I am having four. Like, oh, this is shocking

Like, can I do it? I'm so grateful that they're all healthy

I don't take it personally at all. It's a major change for us, for my family

Our support system is not that great. We don't really have much family here at all

Right now, my friend is able to come over and help when she can

We made it Hey sis

How are you? Good! Thank you for coming. Carter, you're looking real chunky today

What's up with it? Is it the brown? So friend, remember when I first told you I was pregnant with quads

Remember when I called you on the phone? I didn't think y'all would have any more kids, so it's like, wow, they about to have four more from the three

I remember you called me, and you was like, friend, you was like, I don't know, you was like, this is a blessing

And you was like, I know it's a lot, y'all will be all right

I definitely have my days where I feel overwhelmed, and you always constantly send me encouraging words

and I definitely appreciate it because, yeah, the weight definitely gets heavy

It definitely gets heavy, for sure. But I see your strength and, like, I know how strong you are

Even before this, no matter what life throws at you, you've been powering through it

I think you are doing a better job than most people would handle it. You know, some people would fall apart

But even now, you're still getting up, going for your walks and taking care of you

and that's important, you know. How would you describe it as parents

Well, they're great parents, you know, they work well together. Having four newborns is like challenging

And no matter what, I don't care who you are, it can be tough. But I think they're amazing parents and they're amazing together

And I wouldn't see a better team doing this together. It's still unbelievable

I know. Y'all got four babies. It's insane. For the future, I see us on acres of land

I just see a lot of laughter and joy and connections. I like to just see them grow like it's four babies and they all have their different milestones

I don't know. I just love them. Would you like to have any more children? No

I do not want to have any more kids. I am done. That shop is closed

I wanted one girl. God gave me two. and two more boys to love on, so I am grateful

Can somebody get Daddy the cheese, please? Cheese. Thank you. What's your favourite food

Cheese. Cheese? You like little mice? Yum, yum. I'm Britain's oldest mum with quadruplets

and I'm 57 years old. Who likes helping mummy? Me. I have six-year-old quadruplets

Francesca, Frederica, Grace and George. I would describe my family as happy, loud, crazy, chaos

Why have we gone up in the morning? He's got what? It's probably a quiet day, innit

This is an easy one so far. This is an easy one? There's going to be a lot of madness

Right, do your balls. Tryna go and set the table. When did you have your first three children

So I had my daughter in 1986 when I was 18. Then I got pregnant again straight after, three months later with my son

I'd just turned 19 and I had my youngest son in 1996 when I was 28

Because they've got their own kids, my quadruplets are actually younger than some of my grandkids

We set the table up. We set the table up. Have you set it? Yes

Let me see. Let's have a look. Great! Well done! There are times where it's hard work and you think

oh my God, what have I done? As I'm older, they give me more energy

All my energy goes into them. What do you love most about your sisters and brother

My sisters and brother are really kind. Mama, Dad, where's the blue

Who's the best cook? Mummy or Daddy? Daddy. Now, George doesn't like noise

Come on. What do you say? Daddy. Thank you. So I met Stephen where we used to live in Camden

and we just used to know the same group of people, so it was familiar faces and we just used to say

high and then yeah it went from there. I think he was 26 and I was 37 but he looked older than me so

I allowed it. He always wanted a big family. I already had three kids so I didn't want any

And the funny thing was I said I wanted five kids. Do you remember? Yeah. I said I wanted five kids

I already had one so five was the number I said. Always said. I just couldn't conceive could we for a while. Yeah

And the harm was just ticking, so I was just worried about getting too old and not happening

I always wanted twins. I've always been fascinated with twins. I think it's because my mum always wanted twins

I always kept getting worse than what I think about my mum

Cos if it were, I wouldn't have been able to do it

She died in 2007, so I used my mum's money to do it

I went for IVF. I just had a feeling deep down it was going to work

Nadia just knew it would happen, and she blessed me with four

Do you dress the quality matching outfits? Yeah, all the time. So, for instance, we have these, and then we have these

When I got pregnant, I remember me and Stephen was in bed, and I got the test, and it just went pregnant

And I went, and we both just went, we just hugged each other, and, you know, crying and laughing and joyful

And then reality struck in and I thought, oh, my God, I've got to tell my kids now

Yeah, so... My daughter said, oh, Mum, you might have twins because she looked big already

I think I was like nine weeks. And she said, I'll take you for a private scan

The woman was scanning me and I'm laid on the bed. She went, let's all calm down

I'm going to put a fan on. She put the fan on and she went, there's actually four

Well, I started crying by this time. And then straight away I thought of my mum again

because she had seven kids, and I thought, oh, my mum's done it again. My daughter went, that's what you get, mum, Nana's done that

It wasn't like tears of, oh my God, what am I going to do

It was just shock, because I weren't expecting four. There are good and bad things about raising quadruplets

I mean, the good thing is they've got each other. They can play with each other

If I had to put some bad points is, you know, the arguing and the squibbling and getting up really early

when, you know, at times I could do the lying, but I chose to have them, so, yeah

I just go along with it and do my best what I can. Who's the oldest mum in the UK to ever have had quadruplets

When did you decide to start sharing your life on social media? When it went worldwide, my sister-in-law said to me

why don't you go to the newspapers? And I said, oh, no, I want to keep it private

She went, why? She went, if that was a young girl She went, they'd be interested in that

So rather than go to a newspaper I rang an agent up I didn't realise I was the oldest mum in the UK

Just to say, I'm pregnant with quadruples Do you want the story

Then my daughter rang me up and she went Mum, what have you done? And I went, why

She went, you in every single newspaper Do not read the comments Do not read the comments

What are you going to do straight away? Read the comments Why would somebody want kids at 50

Why did she have them when she was younger? I used to it now but then I thought I can stress because I carrying four babies I knew if I stressed out you know something could happen and I just wanted to protect the babies After I had the kids I made an Instagram page With TikTok I just started sharing it like about a month ago

Not long back, somebody messaged me on TikTok saying, why would you want kids at 50

And I said, why not? That shut them up. Made them feel guilty for asking the question in the first place

We have asked the audience what they think of parents having children in their 50s

Could you respond to their comments? Okie dokie Women can have children whenever they desire

As long as they In brackets and the father can provide for them

The answer is Yeah we can That's grandma right there Yep that's grandma right here

I'm a grandma of 12 grandkids And proud of it too There's so many things that can be wrong

With the baby for having it So old It's not fair to the child

and who will care for it once you pass away? Why does everybody always bother about you passing away

Very selfish to try and have a baby at 50. Well, whoever sent you this message

wants to come and have a day in our lives and see if they'll change their attitude

because there's no selfish about it. Come and look at my kids and then say it's selfish

Simple as that to that one. I can understand I'm putting my business out on social media

so people have a right to respond and have their say. but don't judge a book by its cover and don't judge me before you've even met me

Whoever can jump the highest. Those people that judge us, what can we say to them

Try putting themselves in our shoes. Yeah, come and see before you judge

Come and watch them play. I'll try and discipline and teach my kids to be as mellow and as nice and kind as possible

I just want them to be happy and content and just stay grounded

What do we hope the future holds for the family? What do you think

Happiness, success, and stability, and a long life. And quiet with it

So if you had to describe the family in one word, what would it be? Mental

Local. Mental or loud. That's two words. Mental or loud. Still two words

No call. You want hold this? Come on, honey. Hold your hands up

I'm Peyton. I'm Farrah, mom of five. Five under three. Can I have some

No. Please. First baby is PJ, Peyton Jr. He's two years old

He's everything. That's our baby boy. He was in for a surprise with these four sisters arriving

The quadruplets are eight weeks. Eight weeks old. We have Lyric. Lyric was number one. And then Paisley

She was number two. Thong. She was third. This is Fallon. Fallon was last. Number four

This is the biggest thing that's ever happened to me. What was, um, like, like, the four days

Easier, I would say. Still kind of hectic, because PJ is two

Can you tell me how you met? So, we met in college. That was my junior year, 2016

Did you want a big family? I mean, I always would play I wanted a big family, because I come from a big family. I'm one of nine kids

And I'm like, babe, three tops. Three is it. Three is my limit. And then when I was pregnant with them, before I knew it was quadruplets, the way I was feeling, I said, Peyton, this is it

I said, I can't do this anymore. I said, this is going to be it. And sure enough

So you go in for an ultrasound. Tell me about that moment

I go in for the ultrasound. The ultrasound tech, I knew something was up by the look on her face

Yeah, she was like very awkward. Then on the Doppler, she was like two heartbeats here

I'm like, oh, twin. So I'm already processing. I'm like, dang, twin. She was like, wait

She moved it over four circles. I was like, whoa. It felt like somebody punched me in the stomach

And then like stumped me out. I was like, ugh. He was grabbing the wall like

is there some water somewhere? I'm like, oh my goodness. The ultrasound tech was like, what were you guys taking

Like, are you getting in vitro, IVF? Or what were you taking

I'm like, I take vitamin C. It was just like, I was torn. Cause I'm like, what? Quadruplets

Then I'm like, wow, this is so amazing. So, yeah, torn. That's how I felt torn

This is some cute little onesies we have for the girls. We got so much stuff guys

We're so grateful everybody was willing to buy four of everything. Tell us about the two identical twins

So these two are twins, Fallon and Lyric. It's like the two P's are twins and then the two Lyric and Fallon are twins

By the time you finish feeding one, not somebody else is hungry. Because there's only two of us and there's four of them

Well really five because PJ is still a baby. And how is Pete Jr. finding me in a big brother

He's still trying to fight for his own attention, but for the most part he understands that

it's not just him anymore. He tries to use his inside voice. That's his biggest dilemma, being gentle

Being gentle because he's a two year old boy. How did your friends and family respond when you told them

Everybody thought we were playing. Open the door. Hi, DJ! Hi! It's overwhelming for me to just walk in

When I walk in, I'm like, where do you start? Want to take the bell pepper? Sorry

We'll try it. You might like it. How did you feel when you got the news that your daughter was pregnant with odds

My initial reaction was, oh my God. And then I went into action

I'm like, what do we do? How do we plan for babies

So my mom made us a GoFundMe like a few weeks after we found out

because we were just like overwhelmed with the thought of having to provide for quadruplets plus our toddler

It just seemed like we need help. They say it takes a village

It really does. It's taking a community. We need bigger than the village

A small island nation. I try desperately on the weekends to come in

and prepare at least two or three meals to carry them through

But because I'm such a good cook, they like to eat it all up in one or two days

You should be hungry. PJ. What reactions did you experience online to sharing that you were having quadruplets

The comments on the picture when we were announcing, so many people were like, what are quadruplets

You guys are having four, I don't know, somebody said, y'all having four kids at once

People say a lot, couldn't be me, I couldn't do it. And I'm like, that's why you didn't get it, you know

I didn't think I could do it, but I'm doing it. I'm trying my best

Sometimes I'll just stroll through the comments and I just see that's the two things that always pop up

I don't like their names, their names are weird or they have to be taking something

So they have money and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I take vitamin C

This is nothing that we did. Like I would tell people all the time, like even friends or like close family

And they're like, what were you guys doing? Like, how did y'all do this

I'm like, yo, I would not purposely have four kids. The process of getting dressed and having to get in the car Have you seen any of the online stuff I did I did I saw the online and I laughed

The lady that commented about if you have enough money for IVF, IVF, why are you doing a GoFundMe

And it's like, okay, we didn't. It's natural. One in 700,000 people conceive naturally

I figured that this is a blessing, you know. One in 700,000

To have a natural, you know, spontaneous quadruple. So I feel like, yeah, we should share this with the world, you know

It's like winning the lottery. We just let it roll off our shoulders

We don't even buy into it. It's not worth it, you know

Jay and the quads. How do you feel about these two sharing their life on social media

So. And you open yourself up to negative, you know, folks. But they both have a strong, strong spirituality

I'm not against it. It's a wonderful story. You know, it's amazing, and I'm happy for them

Look at my baby girl growing to such an amazing mother. So I am so, so very proud of her

If I had to describe this family in one word, I would describe them as amazing

Where do you hope you'll be in the future? I see us in a bigger house, running around like crazy people

Happy chaos. I hope for the future that my family can achieve peace, happiness

No, I do not want any more kids. I love them. I don't want any more kids

I am getting all of their bottles ready for the day. Our children are Jacob, who's nine, Matthew, who's three, and then there is Allison, Adam, Madison, Emma, and Chloe, and they are all one

We had a lot of infertility problems. I have PCOS. We took Clomid and got pregnant with Jacob

A couple years after we had Jacob, we decided to try again. We ended up doing IUI and follow stem injections

We had a lot of complications with Matthew and just his health

My husband really wanted a little girl. I was scared to try again after Matthew and the complications that we had with him

But you know, he had talked me into it and said we can handle anything

And I thought, you know, he's right. So we went back to doing thalastem injections and IUI

They had said, you're over-responding to the medication. There's too many follicles growing

Don't take your trigger shot and we're not going to do IUI

In a couple weeks, just take a test and we'll try again for a new cycle

I took a test and sure enough, it was positive. When we first went in, the ultrasound tech was really quiet

She said, so I'm just going to prepare you. She said, you know, there's more than one

There's, and she just looked at me and did that. I know I went speechless and was completely shocked

There's so many risks with high order multiples. I just kept going into every appointment, hoping that, you know, nothing would be wrong

They were striving to get me to 24 weeks. How many weeks did you go

32. Nobody expected us to go that far. I didn't expect us to go that far

I was so shocked by the delivery. We had a plan in place and our team was really wonderful

All the quints were born in four minutes. I could not believe how fast they were born

I was truly surprised. It was like I blinked and they were all born and they were healthy and they were headed to the NICU

I'd say, now it's time for nap. For the first year, it was pretty rough because you really couldn't go anywhere

They were eating every three hours. By the time we would finish with the last one, it would be only 30 minutes before we had to restart and feed all five again

There was never time to sleep, and we were both exhausted. Now that they can hold their own bottles, it's amazing

And a huge relief for us. It can be really time-consuming trying to get them to eat

They eat between 10 and 15 containers of baby food between all of them

We always do bottles and then diapers. Your turn. and then they usually play for two hours and then they all get sat down in their high chairs and

have lunch. After lunch we get them all cleaned up and another diaper change and then they get

laid down for a nap. Then we do it all over. I love you mommy. I love you too baby. Are you helping mom? I think she needs an egg. Oh yeah

Jacob, are you a part of the team now too with helping out

I actually help out a bunch. You've learned a lot of stuff

You're a lot of help, buddy. You are. You're a good big brother. Jacob has been absolutely thrilled

He loves all of them, and he's such an amazing big brother. He wants to do everything with them

Is this his hand up? Good job. Jacob, take all the diapers

That's nasty. Nasty? Have you received any criticism? There's been a lot of articles written about the Clintz

and we were really shocked because our stories traveled everywhere. Everybody from everywhere is commenting

You have a few that say, wow, you know, having that many is irresponsible

A lot of people think that we did IDF, and we chose to have a whole bunch

which I don't know who chooses to have that many. So that's kind of crazy to me

You have a couple that, you know, assume because you have a high number of children

that you're just a welfare case. So you have those few negative people

But, you know, I would definitely say that they're few and far between

For the most part, everybody's been really supportive and just super excited about the quints

Does that mean you're talking about more of him? He jokes about an eighth one and I tell him he's crazy and it's not happening, so

You've got to make the numbers even, right? Oh, okay. The girls are ahead. When we talked about a third, I actually was not wanting to have a third

Don't blame me. It's all on you. Given all the possible medical complications and everything that we were facing with Pentuplets

and with Matthew, we're truly blessed that we have all seven children here and healthy and thriving

Every day is exciting and they make it completely worth it. We're hoping to be closer to both of our families, both of our families live in Missouri

And we're hoping that, you know, to be closer, not only do we have some more support

but we also give our kids and our family the chance to see them grow

I myself am most excited to see their relationship with each other and how that changes and grows

Hopefully it stays just as sweet as it is now