The four brothers were delivered at 31 weeks to Tressa Montalvo, 36, via Cesarean section at The Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston, according to a news release from the hospital.
Tressa and Manuel Montalvo Jr.
were not using any fertility drugs and had just hoped for a little
brother or sister for their 2-year-old son, Memphis, according to the
release.
"We planned the pregnancy - I guess we just succeeded a
little too much!" said Tressa Montalvo, quoted in the release.
When Montalvo
was 10 weeks pregnant, her physician told her she was having twins, and
on a subsequent visit, the doctor detected a third heartbeat. The
Montalvos were later informed they were having four babies - not
quadruplets but two sets of twins.
The odds of delivering two sets of naturally occurring identical twins
is somewhere in the range of 1 in 70 million, according to the
hospital. Two boys shared one placenta and the two other boys shared
another placenta.
Ace and Blaine were born at 8:51 a.m. on February 14
and weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces (1.64 kg), and 3 pounds, 15 ounces (1.79
kg), respectively. Cash and Dylan followed a minute later, weighing 2
pounds, 15 ounces (1.33 kg), and 3 pounds, 6 ounces (1.53 kg),
respectively."We tried to stick to the A-B-C-D theme when naming them," Tressa Montalvo said. "We didn't expect it, we were trying for just one and we were blessed with four."
Manuel Montalvo said in the release that they're not done yet - he still wants a girl.
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