Quadruplets born at Lutheran General Hospital

A Glendale Heights couple has welcomed four new members to their family.

Hubert, Marcel, Lena and Sara were born Wednesday at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, according to Jaimie Oh of Advocate Health.

The parents, Marzena and Greg Nawracaj, also have an older son, Maximilian, who turns 3 on Sunday.

“We are over the moon and already in love with” our kids, Marzena Nawracaj said. “Our family is ready for this next great adventure together.”

Marzena Nawracaj holds two of her newborn quadruplets at Lutheran General Hospital. | provided

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Marzena Nawracaj holds one of her newborn quadruplets at Lutheran General Hospital. | provided

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Marzena Nawracaj holds one of her newborn quadruplets at Lutheran General Hospital. | provided

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Greg Nawracaj holds one of his family’s newborn quadruplets at Lutheran General Hospital. | provided

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Marzena Nawracaj holds one of her newborn quadruplets at Lutheran General Hospital. | provided

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Marcel Nawracaj was the second of

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Her babies are “doing well and recovering” in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, Oh said.

Quadruplets are extremely rare. In 2017, there were 193 quadruplet births in the United States out of 3,855,500 total births that year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control.

The rate of births of triplets or greater grew by 400% from 1980 to its peak in 1998 at 193 births out of every 100,000, according to the CDC. The rate of triplets-or-over births has fallen 47% since then to about 102 in every 100,000 births.

The babies, in birth order: Hubert, 5 pounds, 1 ounce; Marcel, 4 pounds, 15 ounces; Lena, 3 pounds; and Sara, 2 pounds, 13 ounces.