{"id":424427,"date":"2025-12-04T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424427\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:14:22","slug":"alberta-mother-prepares-to-welcome-miracle-quadruplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424427\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta mother prepares to welcome \u2018miracle\u2019 quadruplets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early on in her pregnancy, Darlene Hensch felt awful. She said her pregnancy symptoms were significantly worse than when she carried her daughter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI started feeling really sick right away, just nauseous all the time and just really exaggerated pregnancy symptoms,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s now six months pregnant with quadruplets<\/a>:\u00a0three boys and one girl. When she found out, she was in shock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know how to handle it,\u201d Hensch said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was just overcome with emotion and a bit hysterical.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hensch is from Westlock County and travels a couple of times a month to Edmonton to visit a high-risk pregnancy clinic.<\/p>\n

She will deliver at the Royal Alexandra Hospital when she is 32 to 34 weeks pregnant via C-section with a high-risk team on standby.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDarlene Hensch at a gender reveal for her quadruplets in Westlock.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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Hensch also has a three-year-old daughter, but her story is significantly different than that of her soon-to-be siblings.<\/p>\n

Her parents tried to conceive for eight years, going through multiple rounds of fertility treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really long road,\u201d she said. \u201cI was diagnosed with unexplained infertility, and a low ovarian reserve.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI thought I would have one kid and that would be it. Surprise!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She calls the quadruplets\u2019 conception a miracle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was going through the fertility clinic they did give a medication that helps you ovulate. I tried that multiple months. It was never successful,\u201d she said, speaking about when she had her daughter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis time I tried again and it worked way too well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hensch won\u2019t be alone in her journey. Early in her pregnancy she got in touch with the Edmonton Twin and Triplet club<\/a>, who connected her with Tara Watson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watson and her husband welcomed their quadruplets in 2024.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t have a huge community of women who have quadruplets in Canada,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was excited to have someone nearby because you can\u2019t just get up and go travel to the States every time you wanna go talk to another quad mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDarlene Hensch showing off her baby bump with quadruplets.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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Watson has been able to find a community of moms online who have quadruplets.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a way to get support and advice from those who truly understand. Now, she hopes to be a part of that support system for Hensch, as she prepares to become a mom of five.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving higher order multiples is very different than having many kids,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such an amazing club to be part of and I\u2019m just really looking for her to experience that magic and holding them all for the first time and, yeah, she\u2019s in for a really special, special journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe didn\u2019t hide anything,\u201d Hensch said of the first conversation she had with Waston.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe told me absolutely everything \u2014 this is what you should expect, the good, the bad, the ugly \u2014 and I\u2019ve used that as a base for what I\u2019m doing going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The number one piece of advice for Hensch that Watson offered was to accept help, even when it\u2019s difficult to ask for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether that looks like, grocery drop-offs, meal drop-off, diaper drop-offs, or picking up a baby, changing diapers, doing laundry, all of the things \u2014 she\u2019s going to need the help,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hope her community steps up big like they did for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the meantime, Hensch is preparing for her entire life to change in a few months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like it\u2019s going to change me as a person, for sure,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be able to be who I was before this, I need to be somebody else entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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