The World's Most Premature Quadruplets Just Turned 2 and Their Parents' Words About the Milestone Will Move You to Tears
Jun 02, 2026 by apost team
On May 31, 2024, Becca and Lavareis Bryant of Auburn, Alabama, were not supposed to be having a baby — let alone four. Their due date was Sept. 23, 2024. But at just 23 weeks and 4 days of gestation, with a full-term pregnancy running 39 to 40 weeks, Becca went into labor. Thirty maternal-fetal and neonatology experts crowded into the delivery room at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. Each baby had a separate team. It was, as the lead neonatologist Dr. Colm Travers later put it, "all hands on deck."
Lainey, Kali, Lennon, and Koen arrived 115 days before their due date — two boys and a pair of identical twin girls, each barely bigger than an "Elf on the Shelf." At birth, their weights ranged from 1 pound 4.4 ounces to 1 pound 6.8 ounces. There was a 10 percent chance all four would survive. "I call them my miracle babies," Becca told TODAY.com. "It was very fast and furious and scary because I didn't know what was going on. I didn't get to see them or touch them, and that was really hard."
The four spent months in the Level IV RNICU at UAB. The last of the four was discharged on Dec. 10, 2024. In June 2025, Guinness World Records officially recognized the Bryant quads as the most premature surviving quadruplets in history — breaking the previous record held by the Tepper family of Australia since 1997, whose babies had been born 104 days early. The quads became known affectionately as the "Quads of Aubs," in honor of their Auburn hometown.
On May 31, 2026, they turned 2. And this time, their parents knew exactly what they were celebrating.
"There were times that we didn't know if we would see a birthday," Becca told PEOPLE. "So it's like, we're celebrating. We're definitely celebrating."
Two years on, all four are breathing on their own, eating food, crawling, and walking. They are clapping. They are, by their parents' account, healthy, happy, and entirely unaware of the record they hold or the odds they defied to be sitting at a birthday table in Auburn, Alabama.
Becca and Lavareis already had three older children when the quads arrived — bringing their household total to seven. Neither had planned for this. Lavareis shakes his head and smiles when asked if he ever imagined being a parent of seven. Becca is more direct:
I always wanted four kids. But I never thought I would have four at one time.
What she did not anticipate, she has now made peace with completely.
"I could have never imagined this, but I also can't imagine it any other way now,"
she said. "Because each one of them, they're just so sweet and they're so loving and they're so fun and they're so full of joy. I couldn't imagine life without them."
Dr. Travers, who secretly researched premature birth records before the last baby was discharged, told UAB News that when his search came up empty, he realized the Bryant quads were almost certainly the most premature to survive in the world. He was right. And on May 31, 2026, two years after the day that changed everything, the family celebrated — loudly, joyfully, and with every reason in the world.
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