The parents of quadruplets born in Texas last month finally reunited with their newborns after the heavy winter storm kept them apart for more than a week.
Starlyn and bill Cafferata uploaded a video of the meeting with their children on the social media platform TikTok, with the video liked more than 82,000 times.
Starlyn Cafferata gave birth on January 18 to a boy and three girls at the Austin Medical Center in St. David. As the children were born premature at 31 weeks, they were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the hospital.
(Quadruples of Bill and Starlyn Cafferata at the NICU)
The winter storm that hit Texas shortly after that prevented Starlyn and her husband, Bill, from seeing their children for eight days.
“You have quadruplets and that’s a crazy probability. So you have a blizzard in Texas that freezes for eight days,” Bill told FOX Television Stations.
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“It was difficult. You want to be with them,” added Bill. “We missed their one-month anniversary.”
As soon as the ice started to melt, the couple reunited emotionally with their children. A week for these children is a long time, and Starlyn said that all the children “had grown up so much” when she saw them again.
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“Eight days was an eternity, honestly, in the life of the newborn mother,” said Starlyn. “It was a crazy, crazy experience.”
The couple did not expect the video of their reunion to receive such attention.
“We did it because of boredom, we woke up and the next day we had 12,000 followers,” said Bill. “Before we knew it, it just kept going up.”
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The couple managed to bring two of the children home to meet their 2-year-old sister, Zoe, while the other two needed a longer stay at the NICU.