Miranda and Josh Crawford always planned on having three or four children. After difficult conceiving they used IVF to get pregnant with their first child, a baby girl named Joslyn.
A year later, they decided to with IVF again. Doctors used two embryos, from the previous batch, into Miranda's uterus. Six weeks later, the couple was pregnant with twins — or so they thought.
Less than a week later, Miranda and Josh found out they were having quadruplets.
"I was shocked. The doctor was shocked," Miranda said. "Never had that happened in his entire career."
Miranda feared she could have a miscarriage or go into labor prematurely during the entire pregnancy. Everything hung in a delicate balance. At 34 weeks, Miranda gave birth to four babies. Each weighed between 4 and 5.5 pounds.
But doctors were stunned when she gave birth to not just quadruplets, but two sets of identical twins. The two different embryos each split to form two pairs.
The result was two opposite sex sets of twins: identical boys and identical girls. Mia, Madison, Jackson, and James, each a healthy little bundle of joy.
"Embryo splitting occurs approximately in one out of 100 embryo transfers. The chance of this outcome is approximately one in 10,000. This could also occur in a natural conception, but the chance of that is much rarer," Dr. James Grifo said.
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