COUPLE HITS FATHER-MOTHERLOAD : NEWBURY PARK PARENTS AWAIT QUADRUPLETS' BIRTH.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer After years of prayers and visits to fertility experts, Ryan and Tricia Kelly are finally becoming parents - four times over. The Newbury Park couple, married 10 years Sept. 13 and trying to conceive for the past six, is expecting quadruplets. Both can barely wait to begin parenthood, though they expect some exhausting times ahead. ``I think most of the time I feel fairly prepared, but I also know we have no idea what we're getting into,'' said proud mother-to-be Tricia Kelly, 35. ``There's only so much you can prepare for - the rest you kind of have to wing.'' Papa-to-be Ryan Kelly, also 35, said the happy couple has been busily preparing their home for the new arrivals. ``There's been a longing in both of us to be parents and I'm very ready to be a dad - I'm very thrilled about it,'' said Ryan Kelly, vice president of Ventura-based Continental Singers, which organizes Christian music Christian music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding the Christian life, as well as (in terms of contemporary music) to give a Christian alternative to main stream secular music. groups and concerts. The couple's quest to become parents began about four years into their marriage. ``Like most couples we thought it would be an automatic thing and after a period of time it wasn't,'' he said. In summer 1991 it appeared that they had succeeded. ``We thought we were pregnant and we weren't,'' Tricia Kelly said. ``That kind of got us started pursuing infertility treatment.'' From there they began a years-long series of visits to fertility specialists from California to Colorado, where the couple moved to follow Ryan Kelly's various jobs. The tests during those years revealed the source of their trouble: Tricia had endometriosis endometriosis (ĕn'dəmē'trē-ō`sĭs), a condition in which small pieces of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) migrate to other places in the pelvic area. , an abnormal growth of tissue on the ovaries Ovaries The female sex organs that make eggs and female hormones. Mentioned in: Choriocarcinoma ovaries (ō´v . They continued seeing specialists who tried artificial insemination artificial insemination, technique involving the artificial injection of sperm-containing semen from a male into a female to cause pregnancy. Artificial insemination is often used in animals to multiply the possible offspring of a prized animal and for the breeding , fertility drugs fertility drug, any of a variety of substances used to increase the possibility of conception and successful pregnancy. Different methods are used to correct or circumvent the many different functional disorders of both males and females that can interfere with and more surgery to overcome the problem. About summer of 1995 they returned to Newbury Park, where they still owned their old house, and saw another specialist who suggested something they hadn't yet tried - in vitro fertilization in vitro fertilization (vē`trō, vĭ`trō), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. Several ova, or eggs, are removed from the mother's body and placed in special laboratory culture dishes (Petri dishes); . ``We did one round of in vitro in vitro /in vi·tro/ (in ve´tro) [L.] within a glass; observable in a test tube; in an artificial environment. in vi·tro adj. In an artificial environment outside a living organism. and it worked,'' she said. Six fertilized fer·til·ize v. fer·til·ized, fer·til·iz·ing, fer·til·iz·es v.tr. 1. To cause the fertilization of (an ovum, for example). 2. eggs were implanted Jan. 26. A routine check of her hormone levels eight days later indicated she was carrying multiples. An ultrasound Feb. 16 revealed four healthy beating hearts. ``The doctor said, `How many babies did you want?' and I said how many are there?' and he said `Let's count,' '' she said. ``When he got to four I said, `No!' ``It was very much a shock - then I giggled the rest of the time,'' she said. The Kellys will have three sons and one daughter. The babies are due any time now and will be born at Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
The parents-to-be are looking forward to the big day, though both admit to a little apprehension. Still, they're ready. ``Sometimes I feel a little overwhelmed,'' Tricia Kelly said. ``At this time, my body is so ready to have these babies that I think I can handle anything.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) Trisha and Ryan Kelly, both 35, have c onceived quadruplets with the aid of infertility treatments. (2--color) Car seats and other baby items awaiting the arrival of three boys and a girl, cover the floor of the home of Trisha and Ryan Kelly in Newbury Park. The Kellys will induce labor Sunday if the babies don't arrive before then. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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