TAMPA, Fla. — Raquel and Darius Tolver have had a busy 365 days.
The Tampa Bay area family’s gender reveal for their quadruplets went viral last year. This past weekend, they celebrated their babies’ first birthdays.
The babies — Bryson, Royce, Denzel and daughter Amaya — beat the odds of survival, despite being born 3 months early.
10 Tampa Bay sat down with mom Raquel at Tampa General Hospital while the babies were still in the NICU. She talked about both the joys and challenges of her experience. The babies spent both Easter and Mother’s Day in the hospital.
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They were born naturally without reproductive assistance— an occurrence happening in just 1 in 677,000 births.
Since their birth, hundreds of thousands of people followed Raquel’s journey as she chronicles portions of their daily lives on TikTok.
Happy Birthday to our Tampa quadruplets!