You say Tomato, I say HOLY CRAP I ONLY WANTED ONE!!!

They call it a blessing (fortunately); I'd call it a nightmare. 

A woman in Texas recently gave birth - ah yes, surely one of life's grandest miracles indeed. But then she didn't stop. She just kept giving birth. And kept giving birth. And kept giving birth. 

They were only trying for one, a "baby sister or brother" for their 2-year-old son. They ended up with four more boys. Ha. Good luck feeding that in 15 years! What was interesting about this particular birth(s) of multiples wasn't just the fact that there were so many - and thankfully they did get some warning that there were more than they'd bargained for ahead of time, not just one (or four) big "SURPRISE(s)!" at d-day, ahem due day - but that it was two sets of identical twins. 

Wow. That kind of confuses my head a little. 

An expert from Harvard says the odds of that occurring is about 1 in 70,000,000. 

By the way, to put into perspective your donations to the lottery every week...the odds of winning the jackpot are - well, nevermind. Keep the dream alive. 

To put 1 in 70,000,000 into perspective though, here are a few more stats for you: 

The odds of a woman having quadruplets at all is 1 in 705,000

The odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime is 1 in 10,000

Odds of going insane from having to change four dirty diapers every few hours I imagine is much higher. 

The couple named the four new sons with names starting with A, B, C, and D, according to their appearance order. They also said they intend to try to conceive again, for a girl. 

Wonder what the odds are that this could happen a second time...

Feeling lucky?