A Houston family welcomed home the last of their identical quadruplets after three months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
At the couple’s first ultrasound, Jonathan and Mercedes Sandhu found they were pregnant with four identical little girls. The couple had conceived naturally and were not planning on getting pregnant just yet since they had a three-year-old and ten-month-old at the time. However, they were shocked and overjoyed by the news.
Mercedes Sandhu gave birth to her miracle quadruplets on May 1, right before Mother’s Day. At just 29 weeks, the babies were healthy and had no complications during labor and delivery.
Dr. Nathan Sundgren, a neonatologist who oversaw the girl’s care in the NICU, told PEOPLE that despite the risks that come from quadruplets being born so early into pregnancy, “they made their way through our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with very few complications and are all doing well.”
“They’ve been doing amazing,” Jonathan told PEOPLE. “We had a weight check today with the pediatrician for the first three that came home, and our heaviest is just shy of 8 lbs., and the lightest is at 7 lbs., five ounces. So they’re normal babies, essentially, which is shocking considering they’re quadruplets all in one placenta. And there haven’t been any other medical issues, knock on wood. We still have a long road ahead of us and lots of things can pop up, but so far they’re exceeding everyone’s expectations.”
The tiny sisters — Hannah Grace, Lucy Marie, Rebecca Claire, and Petra Anne — celebrated another milestone almost two weeks ago when Rebecca joined the crew at home (including big brothers Luke, 4, and Aaron, 20 months), following her discharge from the NICU after 86 days.
“It’s been beautiful chaos with six kids, four of them newborns, two of them toddlers,” Jonathan said.
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The Sandhu’s shared how their sons have stepped into their newfound love for being big brothers.
“They have loved it,” Jonathan shared. “They have been so excited. Actually, our youngest boy threw a fit, going to daycare this morning just because he wanted to be around the babies, he just kept going, ‘Baby, baby.’ He went over and patted all of them and shushed them this morning, he was so distraught that he had to leave them. You always worry about other kids when a newborn comes home, and we had four of them. It’s really changing their world, but they have loved it so much, and that’s been the most heartwarming thing of just seeing them be excited to have little babies around.”
The Sandhu’s are a beautiful testament to the resilience and love that families can embody in the face of the unexpected. Their journey reminds us that with unwavering faith, circumstances that might seem daunting can become our biggest blessing.
“It’s amazing what you can handle when you’re faced with it,” he expressed. “If you would’ve asked me a year ago if I’d be able to do this, I would’ve said absolutely not. And then last night, my wife and I were doing the nine o’clock feeding together and we’re just each feeding two babies and we’re talking to each other, and it was just a really nice special time and we’re like, ‘Oh, this is so nice and relaxing.’ “
He added, “It’s all this craziness, but you just adjust and you find a way, and we’re like, ‘Oh, it’s not that bad.’ Everything’s relative. What we tell ourselves, too, is our challenges of not getting enough sleep or worrying about all of our kids, there’s people all over the world that worry about not having food for their families, and it’s like, okay, putting it in context, these are not bad problems to have. These are solvable problems.”
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