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00:00 When people see us in the street,
00:01 they often just stop and stare or they ask us,
00:04 are they all yours?
00:05 They're always quite shocked when we tell them, no,
00:08 they're not twins, they're quintuplets.
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00:13 My name is Hannah Merton, I am 23 years old
00:20 and I am the mom of quintuplets.
00:23 As soon as my husband and I got married,
00:26 we knew that we wanted to get pregnant right away,
00:28 but we struggled.
00:29 I ended up being diagnosed with PCOS.
00:32 My family is huge and I wanted to be part of that too.
00:37 I wanted to have a lot of kids myself
00:39 and knowing that I was diagnosed with PCOS
00:43 and it was a possibility that I would never get pregnant,
00:45 I really started to worry that I wouldn't be able
00:48 to have a huge family like I wanted.
00:50 I went to my doctor and in early 2019,
00:55 they prescribed me medication to help me ovulate.
00:58 And after several rounds,
01:00 that's when I became pregnant with quintuplets.
01:04 I started showing very fast.
01:12 Unfortunately, when I was about 23 weeks pregnant,
01:14 they told me that my cervix had thinned out
01:17 and I was starting to dilate.
01:19 I was taken in for an emergency C-section
01:23 and we welcomed our five babies into the world.
01:26 Philomena, Evangeline, Gideon, Meredith, our angel baby,
01:30 and last, Elliot.
01:34 I was blown away by just how tiny they were
01:37 and by the amount of monitors and wires and tubes.
01:41 It was very overwhelming and scary,
01:47 but also I had never felt more in love
01:50 than when I first saw them.
01:51 They all had lots and lots of up and downs.
01:56 It was scary every second of every day,
01:58 knowing that at any moment we could lose any of them.
02:02 We didn't think Meredith would make it through the night
02:05 and they told us we needed to take our daughter
02:08 off of life support
02:09 because we were only preventing the inevitable.
02:12 And we were told our daughter's not going to make it.
02:17 On March 25th, 2021, that was the first time
02:22 we got to have all four of them reunited.
02:24 It was so surreal and so bittersweet
02:26 knowing that they finally got to meet each other,
02:29 but also really sad knowing that we would never have
02:31 all five of them together.
02:33 What really makes our life work
02:44 is sticking to a very strict schedule.
02:47 We eat at the same time every day,
02:49 we wake up at the same time,
02:50 baths at the same time.
02:52 Everything is all according to a schedule
02:54 and it really makes things run smoothly.
02:57 It does get very, very tiring
02:58 and there's always, it's running in opposite directions.
03:02 Sometimes I feel like they really put me through the wringer
03:06 but they are so much fun all the time.
03:09 I definitely had a very unique time becoming pregnant
03:15 and having quintuplets.
03:19 It's definitely not like anybody else is doing my age
03:22 and it's definitely not the most normal approach
03:26 to becoming a mother,
03:28 but I wouldn't change it and it's really such a blessing
03:31 and I love watching all four of them grow up together.
03:34 I am so glad that I had multiples.
03:37 I really, really wouldn't change my life for anything.
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