“I was so mad because I had this goal, and, to me, I didn’t reach it,” she said.
But in the days since delivering, she’s gotten to know the three girls and two boys she felt nudge her from the inside for so long. She already knows Gabby can sleep through anything, Addy (the smallest) is a fighter, and Riley (the biggest) is kind of lazy, she said. She calls Riley “my chubber.”
Although Meryl says her stomach feels as sore as if she’s done “1,000 crunches,” and she’s getting used to walking again after two months in bed, she can go home to her temporary apartment in Arizona today. The quints will stay in the NICU until they’re ready to leave, too.
Always a step ahead, Carmen Matthews, who gave birth on Sept. 6, is waiting for just one more baby to leave the NICU before she and her family can go home to North Carolina.