{"id":244463,"date":"2026-04-11T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:28:07","slug":"corpus-christi-couple-welcomes-rare-quadruplet-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244463\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi couple welcomes rare quadruplet girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFour blessings.\u201d That\u2019s how one Coastal Bend<\/a> couple described the addition of quadruplets to their little family this year.<\/p>\n

Adriana Luna and her fiance, Anthony Lerma, welcomed their four quadruplet daughters at Corpus Christi<\/a> Medical Center on Valentine\u2019s Day this year. However, the unexpected \u2014 but very welcome \u2014 blessing is bringing new challenges, as the family suddenly has to contend with all the typical new baby things, like diapers and formula, times four. So now they\u2019re reaching out, asking for the public\u2019s help. It takes a village, after all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are beyond grateful for these four blessings, this has also brought sudden emotional, physical, and financial challenges,” the parents \u2014 who also have a 2-year-old son \u2014 said in a recent\u00a0GoFundMe post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaring for quadruplets means quadruple the diapers, formula, medical care, and daily essentials\u2014on top of adjusting to life as new parents of four newborns at once,\u201d the\u00a0GoFundMe reads.<\/p>\n

According to the post,\u00a0Luna became pregnant while using an intrauterine device (IUD), which is typically 99% effective at preventing pregnancy. That made the news of her pregnancy come as a surprise. But the surprises continued when doctors discovered she was carrying multiple babies, and they weren\u2019t talking about twins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat started as the news of one baby quickly became two, and then, unbelievably, four,\u201d the\u00a0GoFundMe reads.<\/p>\n

The complex pregnancy meant\u00a0Luna had to withdraw from a nursing program she had recently begun at Delmar College. Ultimately, she delivered four baby girls after 29 weeks and four days of gestation, according to KRIS 6 News<\/a>, Corpus Christi\u2019s NBC affiliate. The couple named them Amora, Analia, Arya and A\u2019zura.<\/p>\n

While the likelihood of multiple babies in pregnancies achieved via fertility assistance, such as in vitro fertilization, can be as high as 30%, the chance of having a \u201cspontaneous\u201d multiple pregnancy is less common. Twins occur naturally in only about 3% of pregnancies. The chances of becoming pregnant with more than two babies at once become even more astronomical after that.<\/p>\n

According to Raising Multiples<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families experiencing multiple-fetus pregnancies, the likelihood of having a \u201cspontaneous\u201d quadruplet pregnancy is 1 in nearly 572,000. And the chances that those four babies will be identical quadruplets are about 1 in 15.6 million. Having a parent who is a multiple themselves increases the odds of producing a multiple pregnancy. In this case,\u00a0Lerma, the babies\u2019 father, is a twin, according to KRIS 6 News. Though it would take genetic testing to confirm, the couple believes their daughters are identical quadruplets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFour blessings.\u201d That\u2019s how one Coastal Bend couple described the addition of quadruplets to their little family this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,2319,2320,820],"class_list":{"0":"post-244463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-mysacoast","12":"tag-mysasotx","13":"tag-mysastaff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}