A COUPLE got the shock of their lives after finding out they were pregnant with quadruplets – just weeks after adopting four other children.
Jake and Maxine got married in May of 2016. But beforehand, they had talked a lot about the foster care process because she wanted to be a foster parent, and always wanted to adopt. Even as a kid she used to ask her mom to adopt a baby brother for her. And as she got older she saw that there were so many kids who needed homes, even if it was just temporary places to land. So, she ʀᴇsᴇᴀʀᴄʜᴇᴅ and decided she wanted to be a foster parent when she was ready.
Maxine and Jake Young, from Berks County, USA, already had a son of their own, and had been fostering four siblings before officially adopting them. After about a year of marriage, in May 2017, they started the process to become foster carers. It took several months of training, police and home checks and then we were approved. Not even a month later, on July 28, their first kids came to them. After that they accepted a placement of a sibling group of three children, ages 4, 2 and 11 months.
Agreeing that one more child of their own would complete their already large brood, the couple were thrilled when they found out they were pregnant quadruplets. But they certainly got more than they bargained for as they quickly realised they were having four – making a total of nine kids under ten.
They still wanted their children, they tried pregnant , but multiple ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs, ᴄʜᴇᴍɪᴄᴀʟ pregnancies, a round of IVF and an IUI before they finally fell pregnant their son, Henry, in October 2018. Speaking to American news outlet wfmz, Maxine said: “I didn’t think that I could even get pregnant without doing IVF like I did with my son. When I took a pregnancy test in January this year, I was really shocked to see a positive result.”
After 7 weeks the doctor and she could see the three babies and little heartbeats. The doctor said she would just do one thorough scan of her uterus and make sure that everything was good. They already had five kids at home, and now with 4 more babies, so it was overwhelming, but Jake and she decided we were ready for it. Quadruplets were born at 32 weeks
Source: dhnewslite.com
