A 29-year-old couple from New Orleans, Farrah Larry and her husband Peyton Larry Sr., initially learned they were expecting in May, but it wasn’t until they went in for an ultrasound during Farrah Larry’s first trimester that they learned they would be having quadruplets.
Now it’s like Christmas came early. Farrah Larry told “Good Morning America” that having her four newborn daughters is “really like a miracle.”
“They’re just the perfect little girls and we just love them so much … they’re everything we didn’t know we needed.”
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Even though Lyric, Paisley, Fallyn, and Psalm were in the neonatal intensive care unit for Thanksgiving, they are expected to spend Christmas at home. Lyric has already been discharged, and her three sisters are anticipated to follow suit.
The couple already has a two-year-old son. According to Farrah Larry, who owns a private transportation company, they were caught off guard by the news that they were expecting four children.
She recalled, “We were both very shocked and surprised, and I think it’s just setting in. [The ultrasound technician] was like, ‘It’s four.’ And [my husband Peyton] almost passed out.”
“I was just laughing and crying, because I could tell that she was serious — so of course, I was excited, I felt blessed, but I was also just like, four kids? Like, what do you mean four kids at once?”
Peyton Larry, a mail carrier, added, “It felt like someone punched me in the stomach, like all the air left out of my lungs.”
The Larrys explained they didn’t use any fertility treatments to conceive the quadruplets. According to them, none of their families has a history of multiples, with the exception of Farrah Larry’s cousin, who had triplets.
Farrah Larry was admitted to the hospital at 30 weeks due to dehydration, but she was determined to carry the quadruplets until 32 and a half weeks, when physicians arranged a cesarean section for her.
Overall, Farrah Larry stated the pregnancy was “smooth sailing” except for the dehydration treatment. At 32 and a half weeks, she was allowed to return to Ochsner Baptist Medical Center for her planned C-section, when she gave birth to the quadruplets.
Peyton Larry disclosed, “On the date of delivery, we actually had the [quadruplets’] names in a Ziploc bag so as they were coming out, we were assigning names.”
Psalm and Paisley, according to Farrah Larry, are identical sisters, as are Fallyn and Lyric. “At some point, we’re probably going to have to color coordinate” their outfits, Peyton Larry observed, but the mother said she can currently tell her newborns apart.
The couple expressed excitement for the next phase now that their quadruplets are here.
“It really does feel like a dream come true,” Peyton Larry expressed.
