Hello Hudson, Harrison, Henry and Hardy. Natural, identical quadruplets born in Dallas
In an event that occurs in one in 11 million births, natural, identical quadruplets were born in March at a Dallas hospital. Earlier this week, the last of the babies was discharged.
Hudson, Harrison, Henry and Hardy Marr arrived on March 15 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
In a statement that the hospital released on Friday, the quadruplets’ mother said she was not worried during her pregnancy about the challenge ahead.
“I knew that if God was going to give us this gift that we were going to be fine,” Jenny Marr said. “I just knew that we were going to be healthy and that everything was just going to be alright.”
Jenny and Chris Marr are both 35 and live in Dallas. They are only children and have no history of multiples in their family, the hospital said.
“This situation is so incredibly rare that there are only about 72 documented cases of spontaneous, identical quadruplets ever,” Dr. Lauren Murray, a Texas Health Dallas obstetrician-gynecologist, said in the statement.
The Marrs learned first that they were to have three babies. Later, during a visit with a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, they found out the egg had divided four ways, meaning identical quadruplets were in the offing.
They had planned a C-section at 34 weeks, but the births occurred at 28 weeks, beginning at 12:46 a.m. on March 15.
After 10 weeks in the NICU, the infants were transferred to the special care nursery, where they stayed for about a month.
The babies were discharged when they were feeding well and gained enough weight, the hospital said. Hardy left on May 9, Harrison on Sunday, Hudson on Monday and Henry on Tuesday.
A no-visitor policy at the hospital began on March 23 because of efforts to tame the spread of the novel coronavirus. Only Chris and Jenny were permitted to visit their children in the NICU.
This story was originally published May 15, 2020 at 6:35 PM.
