Alberta mother prepares to welcome ‘miracle’ quadruplets
Global News
Darlene Hensch, who once struggled with unexplained infertility, is now expecting quadruplets and preparing for a high-risk delivery and life-changing journey.
Early on in her pregnancy, Darlene Hensch felt awful. She said her pregnancy symptoms were significantly worse than when she carried her daughter.
“I started feeling really sick right away, just nauseous all the time and just really exaggerated pregnancy symptoms,” she said.
She’s now six months pregnant with quadruplets: three boys and one girl. When she found out, she was in shock.
“I didn’t know how to handle it,” Hensch said.
Hensch is from Westlock County and travels a couple of times a month to Edmonton to visit a high-risk pregnancy clinic.
She will deliver at the Royal Alexandra Hospital when she is 32 to 34 weeks pregnant via C-section with a high-risk team on standby.
Hensch also has a three-year-old daughter, but her story is significantly different than that of her soon-to-be siblings.
Her parents tried to conceive for eight years, going through multiple rounds of fertility treatment.
