When Aja Kennon walked into Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center for what she thought was a routine follow-up ultrasound, she was ready to see her three babies on the screen.
Instead, the technician paused.
“I think there’s another head up there,” she said. Moments later, a doctor counted aloud: “One, two, three — and then four.”
Aja froze: “I just thought, are you sure it’s not another placenta?”
The mom-to-be was now expecting quadruplets — without fertility treatments. With twins on both sides of her and her fiancé Emmanuel’s families, she joked it almost felt destined.
Her pregnancy was far from easy, but Aja kept working her USPS job until just a month before delivery. That determination carried her to 34 weeks — an impressive milestone for quadruplets.
On July 1, she and Emmanuel welcomed three boys, Ean, Evan, and Eamon; and a girl, Alayha. The boys share their father’s first initial, while Alayha shares her mother’s.
