Hugging her husband and staring adoringly at her precious new brood, tired but happy mum-of-quads Natalie Te Aroha says she’d do it all again if the prize was a set of quadruplets as gorgeous as hers.
And it’s hard to disagree. When Woman’s Day drops by to meet them, the non-identical quads – three girls and one boy – are all gummy smiles in their cute swaddles and beanies.
“Every time I hold them, the love I feel is unexplainable,” gushes the personal trainer, 30, from Bunbury, WA, who had planned to have “one more baby” as a sibling for her daughter Kiana, two.
DIFFICULT JOURNEY
“When I hugged them for the first time, I knew immediately I could do it all over again, despite the pain and sickness of my pregnancy.”
It definitely wasn’t an easy journey for Natalie. The first 15 weeks was marred by swathes of nausea, then from 17 weeks onwards, she didn’t go a day without severe rib pain. “I’d use a heat pack for relief, or ice, but then I’d feel guilty the babies were getting too cold,” she giggles.
This story is from the September 7, 2020 edition of Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.
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