New Orleans postal carrier Peyton Larry and his wife Farrah did not use any fertility treatments when she became pregnant with quadruplets. Though the couple reacted with amazement when they got to know Farrah was pregnant with quadruplets, they were in for another surprise as they were informed she carrying two sets of twins – which is rare.
“I was laughing and crying at the same time,” Farrah, 29, told PEOPLE. “My husband was about to pass out.”
Peyton and Farrah welcomed their four bundles of joy – Lyric, Paisley, Psalm, and Fallyn – via a cesarean section on November 20. The couple’s children were eventually discharged from the hospital after they spent some weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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“I’m sleeping maybe three and a half hours a night,” Farrah said, with Peyton, 29 also concurring. “I don’t sleep anymore,” Peyton also added. “It’s like one long blink.”
Peyton and Farrah currently have five children. But despite the increase in the size of their family, the couple said they have no qualms about that. “For diapers, we’re going through seven or eight a day, times four. We’re going through packs quickly,” Farrah said. “It’s the same for bottles; they eat like eight times a day.”
It is rare for women to conceive quadruplets without the use of fertility drugs, PEOPLE reported. The chances of quadruplets being two sets of identical twins are also slim.
“It’s … quite a feat for the parents,” Dr. Jane Chueh, a professor and director of prenatal diagnosis in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics at Stanford Children’s Health, said. “[The chances are] somewhere between one in 750,000 to one in a million.”
A GoFundMe has since been set up by Farrah’s mother to help raise funds for the couple’s expenses. At the time of this report, over $40,000 of the $50,000 goal had been raised.
“They have a huge, huge village,” Farrah’s mother, Sue Dixon, said. “We’re all gonna wrap our arms around them and they’re gonna be fine.”
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