In January of this year, Victoria and Alexei Markovichi suddenly found themselves at the center of the news agenda. And all because Victoria, a young, pretty woman from Volgograd, had four sons at once!

A quadruplet is 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 extremely rarely-once in hundreds of thousands of 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡s. Such stories inspire, delight, and scare at the same time. How is it to endure, give 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡, and feed four? How do two little older sisters of four new𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 brothers feel? How does it feel to become a mother of six 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren at the age of 27?

“I always thought that I would have two, well, maybe three 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren. We have two daughters, 7 years old and 2 years old. My husband wanted a boy so much that we thought about having a third one, and I immediately became pregnant. We were sure it was a boy. But it turned out that there were four boys at the same time,” Victoria explained.

At the first screening, all assumptions were confirmed. The doctor joked, “I see you have a whole bunch of babies there… Maybe look for the fifth one.” Now I had to get used to the idea that four babies would appear in the family at the same time.

I was in the hospital when labor suddenly started at 29 weeks. They took me to the delivery room. It was night, and my main task was to hold out until the morning. After all, you have to wait until the entire medical staff comes to work! My 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡. The doctors who were on duty in the hospital at night were not enough. Each 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 relied on its own brigade,” she added.

Child𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 took place with the participation of 30 physicians. All the babies were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 safely by ᴄᴀᴇsᴀʀᴇᴀɴ sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ. The heaviest of them weighed 1490 grams, and the lightest 900 grams. The babies were immediately placed in incubators – special devices that maintain the desired temperature, humidity, and oxygen levels. The brothers were then transferred one by one to heated beds. Now they are gradually being transferred to regular cribs.

They will have a good team! We already imagined with our neighbors in the ward how the quadruplets would go to kindergarten together in one group. They would study together in the same class. This mother will need strength, a lot of strength, in order to raise and put her six 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren on their feet.