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I'm a mom of quadruplets
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Yeah! Yeah! We were trying for one boy and four babies arrived
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Hey, Mom. Hey! The doctors told me that by continuing this pregnancy
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I was potentially risking my life. The bigger you got, the scarier it got
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We've been accused of caring more about our son and not about our daughters
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We can clearly see who's the favorite child, feel sorry for the baby girls
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no happy cheers for them people are like how do you do this and like well you have to
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okay here's the big question do you want more kids who remembers how to make them baby
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keep piling them in let's get them towards the bottom I have five kids Savannah seven
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and then the quadruplets are four so there's Hazel, Paisley, Scarlett and Chase
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here we go I would describe my children as being carefree but with the flow, they kind of have to
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There's five of them. Movie, movie, movie. How is it, Chase? We always set them in the order of where they sit
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So Scarlett sits here, my husband sits here, and then Chase. We do label their water cups for school
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How would you describe your family life? Okay, it's loud. Like it's chaotic
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You want them to have fun, but then you try to have a conversation
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with my husband, like, good luck. You too, yeah! Chase, here's the real question
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Who's the strongest? I. My husband's name is Justin. We've been married for 11 years
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We both worked full time, and he still does to this day
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Justin was fine with one kid, and I said, no, let's try for a second kid in hopes of a boy
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Well, we got our boy, but three extra girls with it. We made the decision pretty quickly
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that I would stay home with them. That's yours, right? What is it like having quadruplets
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People ask this all the time, how do you adjust? Everyone has their own low preference
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Someone likes the scrambled, someone just likes the white, and someone likes the white with the yolk I didn really have a lot of time for excitement Dig in Do you need a fork See I already up It was more of like my brain went into preparation mode
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I need four of everything. What am I going to do about room situations
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and, you know, finding four cribs? You know, how will we afford this
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We got to make our bets. I don't want to remake my bet. So Savannah has her own room
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Chase has his own room. And then the three girls get to share this big room
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Bebeep, little man. Bebeep. Cheeseball. His name is Cheeseball. As you can see, it's not always, you know
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Okay, wants to show them their closets. Is this all of your stuff
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Slippers, princess dresses, tank tops. We've even got mismatched socks, so socks who are missing their hair go in here
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My husband, he's carefree. I'm more of the structured type. Kids love routine
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They love our schedule. They've learned patience through the process. This is our very own red light, green light system
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The red light indicates that it's bedtime and they are to stay in their beds
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When I see the kids are awake, but I'm not ready to get them up yet
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I will turn it to what color, Scarlett? Yellow. This indicates to them that they can get out of their bed, read a book, but they have to stay in their room still
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When I'm ready to get them up, I will switch the color to green. This system has really given me a lot of peace of mind
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I get asked all the time, like, how do you do it? If you woke up and you were handed four kids at once, you would just do what you have to do
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Today, my mom is coming over to help with the kids. Are you waiting for me
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She was there when I first found out about the quadruplets. Grammy, give her big hugs
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Give her big hugs. The process we went through is actually called IUI, which stands for artificial insemination
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Hi, Chasey. I went into that room then for the sonogram praying for a healthy baby She said yep you know there a sack And then you know they move the sonogram around Well I see two And I said oh so there twins
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And then she's like, oh, no, there's three. Well, and there's also a fourth one
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And her tone kind of got real, like, I don't know what she was thinking
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Remember that day I showed up to your house with the sonogram? and it's got four little, what are they at that point, eggs
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I thought you were joking. And I honestly don't think it hit me at all that that was even a possibility
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And we were afraid of what could happen. And then when we went to the hospital, the doctor looked at both of us and said
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you know, we really suggest that you remove a couple of them
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Reduce. reduce and we looked at each other and that's when I really got nervous. The doctors told me
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that by continuing this pregnancy I was potentially risking my life but for me and my husband it was
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not a question. You kind of feel special that it's happening to you but then inside you're like
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scared to death. The bigger you got the scarier it got for all of us I think. There was always
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potential that all four, we could lose all four. And I think it was like 45 minutes and the nurse
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came in and said, she's done. Everything's good. And I just was like, oh, thank goodness that
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everything was fine and they're all alive and you're alive. I would never change a thing. I mean
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every single one of these kids means so much to me and I love them all so, so much, so very dearly
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And you're doing a fantastic job too. I love you. Thank you, Mom
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I love you. Aww. I started posting videos just to share with friends and family
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I was just sharing, like, cute videos that I had accidentally captured
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and I had one video go viral. Two sisters Do you think this one gonna be a boy or a a girl Boy Boy Three pounds three pounds time to baby Jesus
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The controversy of my gender reveal viral video was our reactions. Our excitement was a lot bigger than it was for the first three
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so people just assumed we only wanted a boy. We can clearly see who's the favorite child
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that boy is going to be as spoiled as no tomorrow feel sorry for the baby girls no happy cheers for
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them people were quick to judge they don't see the bigger picture or see your profile of how
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well you treat all of your children even though there's that one negative comment there's usually
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then like 50 positive comments and that kind of you know gets you through those tough times
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Yes! Yes! Oh, Daddy's home. Go say hi, Baisley. Go give him a hug
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Scarlett doesn't care. So what was your real thoughts with going for another kid
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I was just hoping that however many kids we were going to have, they came out healthy, and they all did, so that's all I'm excited about
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How is it now that you have four? Having four, it's a lot of work, but once you're in it
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you don't really think about it. You just kind of do it, you know
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The love that they bring into the mix. Those moments where everybody's together and happy
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and like we're all, you know, so engaged and loving. It like, you forget about the bad moments
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People are like, how do you do this? And we're like, well, you have to. Oh, nice kick
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There's no, I can't do this or I won't do this. It's like, you're doing this
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Okay, here's the big question. Do you want more kids? No. Our family's perfect
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It's a perfect size and it feels complete. I don't think we need any more additions
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No, we're happy, right? Very happy, yeah
