The story of this couple began like a fairy tale. Erika Morales met Carlos. They fell in love at first sight, despite the fact that she did not know a word of Spanish and he did not speak English. A little later, the couple decides to seal their union with the sacred bonds of marriage, dreaming of becoming parents as soon as possible. But it’s not that simple. She had to endure more than one miscarriage, the pain, suffering and frustration of trying to conceive a child. However, without giving up hope, the couple finally succeeds.
At the first ultrasound Erica and Carlos receive stunning news: in the womb of the expectant mother beats not one, and the whole four hearts! It’s hard to describe in words, how they thanked God for the gift. When they got home, the enthusiastic parents immediately began to choose baby names. They named the boy Carlos, after his father, and the two girls, Paisley and Trace. The last baby girl’s name did not come to mind. The couple decided to pick one after the birth.
First contractions in Erica started after seven months of pregnancy. Excited, almost panicked, she wrote her husband a message, after which Carlos, leaving everything, rushed to the hospital. While doctors made a cesarean section, the happy father waited patiently in the hallway for the birth of his four babies. The operation ended successfully, and the doctors allowed Carlos into the room with his beloved.
When he saw his wife, he firmly but gently squeezed her hand, silently thanking her for the miracle that had happened to them. The exhausted woman gradually woke up from the anesthesia. But suddenly everything went wrong.The instruments squealed like crazy, forcing the doctors and nurses to rush to the room. Carlos was asked to take the babies and leave immediately. Erika died of blood loss. One by one, the doctors explained something to Carlos, but he, stunned by the pain, could not hear anything. “How…? She just smiled at me, and now she’s dead….
Just now she was alive, and now she’s gone,” Carlos later recalled. It should have been the happiest moment of their lives. But unfortunately, fate disposes of lives without ever listening to what we think.
For the sake of his wife and four children, Carlos decides not to despair and never to give up. “The children will be bilingual and go to college,” he writes in his farewell message to Erica. The young father names the three children exactly as he and his wife planned: Carlos, Paisley, and Trace. And the name for the fourth girl, which a few months ago, the parents could not think of any, now came up by himself. Erica. After her mother.
An incredible story of pure love. For these four little girls, Carlos would forever be the only parent. But their mother, who gave her life for them, will never be forgotten. Share this story if it touched your heart too!
