AMAZING MUM HAS GOT
MARVEL mum Kayla Glines has multiple reasons to be happy — as the world’s first TRIPLET to give birth to QUADS.
Against mindboggling odds, 32-year-old Kayla gave birth to Reese, Jameson, Oaklee and Lincoln.
A cracking picture shows the tots snuggled up together... not unlike an old family album snap of Kayla as a baby alongside her triplet brother and sister.
Her amazing story covers more than a decade of hope, patience, despair and finally unbridled joy as her wish for a family with hubby Allen came true.
Two years ago she fell pregnant with triplets after fertility treatment. Two of the tots survived but one died in the womb.
So when she conceived again – this time naturally – Kayla was staggered to discover she was due to have four more children.
She said: “We just couldn’t believe it when I went for a scan and the doctor told me that I was pregnant with quads.
“We had been trying for so many years to fall pregnant naturally and to discover I was going to have four babies, especially when I’m a triplet myself, was just unbelievable.
“We were very nervous as we knew how risky a quad pregnancy can be, but luckily all the babies were born safely.”
MASSIVE
Kayla and social worker Allen, 32, of Salt Lake City, Utah, had already adopted her brother’s two daughters, now eight and six, before they started fertility treatment in 2016.
Two of the triplets were born safely in August 2017 and the quads arrived in March this year. So the couple now have six children under the age of two – and eight in total.
Kayla added: “Sometimes Allen and I can’t believe what has happened to us. We spent 10 years trying for a family and now we have a massive family of eight children and us!”
The couple were heartbroken when after years of trying for a child, doctors said they wouldn’t be able to conceive naturally.
The full-time mum explained: “Allen and I were devastated. We had always wanted a family. We had been trying for years to fall pregnant and yet it had never happened.
“We sat down and discussed what we were going to do, as we couldn’t ever imagine not being parents.
“My brother had been struggling with his family and had suggested to us that we adopt his daughters Adysen and Amiliya.
“Allen and I loved the girls dearly and if it would help my brother not to struggle, then we decided it was the way forward for us.
“It wasn’t how I imagined starting our family, but if it was meant to be this way, then so be it. We got stuck into the routines of bedtime and teatime, school runs... and I loved being a mum.”
Four years later, the couple decided to start fertility treatment, to see if Kayla could finally conceive a baby of their own.
She managed to fall pregnant with triplets, but at 27 weeks tragedy struck when one of the babies, a little girl who the couple had named Allie, died in the womb.
Kayla said: “It was heartbreaking. We couldn’t believe it. The other two triplets were still alive and doctors decided that it couldn’t wait. They had to be delivered that same night. Just that morning I’d been pregnant with three babies, now just hours later we had been told that one had died and the