Loving Father Pushes Forward To Raise Quadruplets After His Wife Dies From Childbirth

Jan 16, 2020 by apost team

There’s a delicate balance between good and bad, life and death, and even pleasure and pain. Without the darkness of night, for example, it would be impossible to fully appreciate the brightly twinkling stars it holds. A man who gained four beautiful babies and lost his wife all in the same day can certainly attest to such a balance.

Carlos knows all too well that life is as much a measure of miracles as it is losses. The weight of his pain was countered by four tiny reasons to live on after a devastating loss. Carlos And Erica met back in 2006. From the very start, theirs would be an epic love story of defying odds. She spoke English. He spoke Spanish. Despite not speaking the same language, the two fell head over heels in love. They each worked hard to become fluent in their partner’s native language.

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By 2007, the couple married in Vegas. Carlos and Erica desperately wanted to start a family. They weren’t having much luck, though. They suffered the heartache of numerous miscarriages over the course of their 10-year marriage. They couple finally decided to try IVF. The treatment was successful, and Erica soon learned she was having four babies - quadruplets.

Erica went into labor on January 15, 2016. One boy, Carlos Jr., and three girls named Paisley, Erica, and Tracey were born. All were healthy. The couple was elated to finally have the family they’d always dreamed of creating together. Despite the trauma of labor, it was a beautiful few hours for Erica.

It would be a short-lived moment, though. Erica had critical postpartum complications just a few hours after delivery. Massive blood loss caused Erica to go into hypervolemic shock, a condition that leaves the heart unable to get adequate blood supply to sustain life. Erica’s heart stopped.

She passed away in the early morning of January 16, 2016. In this video, you can hear Carlos describe his immediate state of shock and despair to People. But, the reality didn’t take long to set in - he was now a widow and a single father to four infants. His new focus was strength for both himself and the four tiny lives depending upon him.

The financial, emotional, mental, and physical job of taking care of quadruplets is difficult enough for partners, but Carlos was now alone to shoulder all these responsibilities. This family’s equally beautiful and tragic story became an online viral hit. Donations to a GoFundMe page set up by one of Erica’s childhood friends started pouring in, and it’s almost reached its 500k goal.

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