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On Losing and Loving

My little brother Nate had cancer. I used to spend lots of time in the cancer ward and I made alot of friends. Luke was my boyfriend. He was terminally ill but to me it didn't matter. We were serious, having sex without protection.

I got pregnant and when I found out I was only 3 months. I never got the chance to tell Luke, he died when I was 1 month pregnant. As my pregnancy progressed I started to tell people. My parents were supportive, I didn't live with them but they offered money and babysitting.

Everybody knew Luke was the father so nobody said anything bad. I found out everything was fine when I was 4 and a half months pregnant. I was having triplets.

My little brother, Nate, died when I was 8 months pregnant. It was traumatic. Especially since I went into labor the next day. After 37 hours of labor I got to hold 2 boys and a girl. I named the boys Lowell Nathaniel and Nevan Lucas. My precious girl I named Milena Odette (Mila).

They are 5 years old now and I am married and have twin girls, Mirielle Olivia (Miri), and Mirabelle Kay (Mira), they are 2. I have a 7 month old boy who just started smiling, his name is Oliver Omarion.

I lost alot but I gained even more and I know that the men I lost are watching over us in Heaven. I am 5 months pregnant with what I plan on being my last child. Since I know there are so many people watching her from above I am naming her Sakina Rain.

I miss the men I lost but I still love my babies more than anything.

Bryna

Ivy, Claire, Joanna, and Blake.

5 months after our first anniversary I found out I was pregnant. The timing was perfect, Henry, my husband, owns his own buisness and it was taking off, my parents and my in-laws had both moved about 20 minutes away and we were in a great place financially. My pregnancy went great, I was all energy and I had no problems. We spent hours searching for the perfect name. When Ivy Gwyneth finally arrived things calmed down. We spent hours on the living room floor playing tickle toes or peekaboo. The, in no time at all, she was crawling. By the time she was talking we were trying to have another baby. It didn't take long, when Ivy was 1 we found out i was pregnant again. We didn't expect any more than just the one, but we got 3! After a pretty easy pregnancy considering my largeness, when Ivy was 18 months old, we got to see our 3 miracles outside of my tummy. 2 girls, Joanna Hale and Claire Aveline, and , to my husbands delight, a boy, Blake Dominic. They were all healthy and now at 3 months old they are starting to smile! It's the sweetest thing!

Evelyn

Kale, Malo, Mele, Miliani, Leilani, Kailani

When I was 22 I got engaged and at 23 I was married to the love of my life, Keon. 3 months later we found out I was pregnant. At 6:27 AM on June 27th I delivered a healthy baby boy. We named him Kale Dewei. We had a great first few months with Kale, we lived in Hawaii and we were always in the pool in our backyard. He was so perfect for us and we took to parenting him so easily that we decided to have our children closer in age than we had originally planned. When Kale was only 9 months old we were expecting. On August 8th at 8:44 PM we got to hold both of our babies in our arms. We named our new baby boy Malo Jun. And we decided that all our children would have Hawaiian first names and Chinese middle names. We also to move to San Fransisco. When Malo was 6 months old we were settled into our new home, a big house with room for more kids. I got pregnant again and this time I was expecting twins. Or so the doctor said. On my 6 month check-up he upped the number of babies in my belly to 3. And then to 4. I couldn't believe it. We were really glad we weren't in Hawaii anymore! On April 28th at 1:18 PM we were looking at four healthy babies. 1 boy, the first out, we named Mele Fai. We named our first daughter Miliani Jia Li. The next girl we named Kailani Zhen and our last baby we named Leilani Mei. The first few weeks were rough but then after about 10 weeks they started smiling and then things just took off. Kale is 5 now and Malo is 4, they both go to preschool together. Our Quads are almost 3 and thankfully they are potty trained. I don't plan on having any more children because I am A) busy with six, B) probably couldn't handle a pregnancy with six kids running aroun, and C) I am scared we will have multiples again! Keon wants one more so I told him we would be adopting if we have any more! Have fun with your babies evrybody, they grow up way too fast!

Luana

we have 3, and oh wait, there's 3 more!

I have 3 kids, Julian Leif, Harmony Adora, and Finn Cedric. When we took Finn home we decided to not try for another but not use protection. I got pregnant and we decided that this was going to be our last baby. I was getting big and we had even started discussing twins by the time my 5 month check came around.

My doctor literally dropped his jaw when he saw the three little babies inside me. We were overjoyed and thought it was fantastic. 3 months and 2 weeks later while Julian and Harmony were in preschool and I was at home with Finn I went into labour. 8 hours later we were staring into the eyes of 3 tiny pink wrinkles in blankets. They were gorgeous.

We named the first baby, a girl, Delaney Rinah, and the second baby, a boy, Brice Cormac. Finally, we named our last baby, a girl. Blythe Omega. They were all healthy and we took all three of them home 4 days later.

Now, Julian is 8 years old. He's in 3rd grade and he loves sports and playing outside with his friends. I like him to be outside too because then he's not destroying the house! Harmony is 6, almost 7, and is in grade 2. She loves horses and can usually be found in the stable out back brushing her horse, Vevina while her dad brushes the rest. She started riding at age 4 and we bought some horses a year ago and she chose one to be hers.

Finn is 5 and in kindergarten and loves skating. We put him in learn to skate classes and he has been in love with the ice ever since. His dad and brother took him out to try hockey once and he hated that but loved watching the figure skaters jump and spin and dance together. He now had black figure skates and takes lessons 3 times a week.

Delaney is 4, in preschool, and she loves to dance. Sha takes ballet, jazz, tap, and theater and she's quite the little drama queen. It's gotten to the point where she will come out of her room wearing one of my old dresses and half a ton of jewelry(she got pierced ears last year) and magic marker all over her face and nobody blinks an eye. Brice is obviously 4 too and in preschool. He's my sensitive child. If his sister is crying he will sit beside her and cry with her. It's very sweet. We were grocery shopping together, just the triplets and me, last week and a girl about his age was sad and crying. He went over to her and gave her a hug and a candy from his pocket. Her mother was laughing at that because she had been in the same aisle a couple minutes before when Brice had practically begged for his candy. And now he was giving it away. He's VERY sensitive!

Blythe is my actress. She loves to sing and act and she loves music. She sings EVERYWHERE and if she wakes up in the middle of the night after a nightmare she tries to sing herself back to sleep, waking everybody else up in the process! Overall every one of my babies are VERY different but having multiples has been great, I learned to multitask like never before!

I am only 33 and in a couple years I might try for one last baby because having 6 children hasn't been that hard. I really think I can have more and I am excited to try! Have fun with your multiples everybody!

Keturah

Aurora & Dawn

I always knew that older women or those taking fertility drugs had a greater chance of having twins. It came as a great shock when I realized that my 34 year old sister Jenna, who had undergone IVF with her husband Clarke, had a single baby boy Lucas-Clarke, and I 5 years younger at 29, and a first time mum had naturally conceived fraternal baby girls!

I was delirious. Every baby is a blessing, but two is miraculous. It put an entirely new spin on things. Even when I was shopping, buying colour coordinated baby-gros and matching cot-covers and plush toys, people would smile at me in the aisle and say "twins?". Most of all I was happy that my beautiful daughters would enter the world and grow up, not alone, but sharing a strong and unseverable bond with another human being.

We named them after their birth, and decided on the names Aurora and Dawn, as Aurora means "dawn" in Latin. Rory and Dawn are 18 months and a true blessing to have.

Hannah