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A Texas couple welcomed four tiny miracles into the world, beating the one-in-fifteen-million odds of havingidentical quadruplets.
Mercedes revealed that her third pregnancy came as a complete surprise.
We werent trying by any means, but we were excited.
Since it was my third pregnancy, I told Jonathan that he didnt have to come to my appointment.
I was like, There will be plenty of scans, the mother recalled.
So Im there without him, and Im laughing and then Im crying.
Im a little bit hysterical.
And my doctor goes, Lets call your husband!
When Jonathan first heard the news, he thought Mercedes was trying to prank him.
He kept asking, Are you serious?'
The news began to sink in when Mercedes OB-GYN began explaining the risks of carryingquadruplets.
The couple knew that their four newborns were astoundingly rare.
The odds of conceiving identicalquadrupletsis mind-blowing, Jonathan said.
So the odds of them making it through anything is a slam dunk compared to that.
The operating room was packed to the point I stopped counting after 25 people.
We made it, he toldTODAY.com.
This is what a miracle looks like, Mercedes wrote onInstagram.
Quadruplets being conceived without fertility drugs is a miracle.
Quadruplets being identical is a miracle.
Quadruplets surviving in utero until 29 weeks (and 3 days!)
on one placenta is a miracle.
It is truly a miracle.
I told my husband that the babies are my five-year gift to him, the mother told the outlet.
Pretty hard to top!
