MIRACLE QUADS TURN 1!

The siblings celebrated with a happy chaotic balloon and cake-filled party

- Natalee Fuhrmann

The room is full of balloons but the one Natalie Te Aroha carried around on her tummy for eight months is missing.

“And I’m glad that’s behind me,” laughs the 31-year-old mum-of-five, who sums up her giant quadruplet pregnancy in one word: “Uncomfortable!”

Having been with Natalie during that challenging pregnancy and for the birth, Woman’s Day is excited to celebrate the quads’ first birthday party at the family’s Bunbury, WA home. The floor is alive with girls Maddi, Frankee and Marley, and their brother Maioha (pronounced My-or-ha), all in various stages of wall crawling. Meanwhile, proud big sister Kiana, three, is fussing over her little brood, and all five squeal with delight when the balloon blowing begins.

FANTASY WORLD

“This last year has been a blur,” confesses Natalie, who admits to feeling she’s been knee-deep in soiled nappies and no sleep since her four babies arrived last July. “I think I was living in a fantasy world when I was pregnant. I wasn’t thinking about the reality of being a mum of four newborns, until I started living it.