Ever since she was a child, Hannah Merton has dreamed of nothing more than having a family of her own. Now, she is the mother of five small babies.
Hannah Merton, 23, from Akron, Ohio has shared her miraculous story of becoming pregnant with five babies and explained that I.V.F had nothing to do with it. The mother-of-five regularly posts pictures of her gorgeous brood and shares snippets of their life as a family. Hannah and Jacob, 24, a financial planner, began trying for a baby three years ago – but when she didn’t fall pregnant, she decided to take medication to encourage ovulation. In October 2019, a pregnancy test came back positive– and later doctors confirmed Hannah was carrying not one, but five babies.
She said:” I suffered from infertility so I took medication to help me ᴏᴠᴜlate, and it worked better than we expected. We were told at the time I had a one per cent chance of having triplets – nobody mentioned the chance of four, never mind five babies because it was so low. It was very shocking when I found out I had five babies. We’d been told the chance of triplets was one per cent and we thought anything more than that would be virtually impossible.” At just 25 weeks pregnant, she was rushed into hospital on March 5th, 2020. Philomena, Evangeline, Meredith, Gideon and Elliot were born prematurely at just 25 weeks weighing between 1lb 13oz and 1lb 4oz each, and Hannah said they could fit in the palm of her hand.
Hannah said: ” When I first saw them all, I was shocked, but I was excited all at the same time. It was love at first sight but I worry seeing them attached to so many different tubes and monitors and wires.” Sadly one of the five children, Meredith, died three days after she was delivered.
By five months old, Philomena, Evangeline and Elliot had made it home, but Gideon remained in hospital. On March 25th, 2021, Gideon was finally reunited with his siblings at home. She said: “Bringing them home was amazing but scary, it was the first time each of them had not been hooked up to monitors.” Since getting all four of the babies back home, Hannah and Jacob discovered the reality of looking after four tots at once.
