Though the Perkinses are remarkably calm now as they survey their little six-pack, they were caught off guard by the whirl of emotions as the babies started to come.
“My heart was beating like crazy,” David told Shamlian. “Lauren was shaking like crazy. I did not expect that. They said that was perfectly normal.”
A team of about 35 doctors, nurses, and other specialists had rehearsed the delivery so that everything would go smoothly.
“When mom came into the hospital, we knew where the equipment was going to be,” Dr. Charles Hankins a neonatologist at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women told Shamlian. “We knew which teams would be at which bed with which baby. So it’s just being ready. You don’t want to do this dance the first time that night.”
Lauren described her first meeting with the babies on the blog the couple set up for family and friends.
“I officially met them on Tuesday and got to touch them!” Lauren wrote. “I couldn’t believe they all fit inside my belly. My favorite moment was getting to hold one of them this morning; she had been upset but calmed down when I held her. :) Two of the babies love their pacifiers and Dave got to put the pacis in their mouths yesterday.”