At 40, mom Tracy of New York City was happy with her family of three, but her 10-year-old son Hunter wasn’t. He really wanted some brothers and sisters, so the mom decided to try and get pregnant and used a surrogate at the same time.
Happily, the mom got pregnant on her own and her surrogate had twins. Shortly after giving birth, Tracy learned she was pregnant again. And if you’re counting at home, that makes five kids total, so now the mom is documenting her life raising one teenager and four preschoolers on TikTok.
The mom said their miraculous journey started years ago when her eldest son Hunter was 10.
“I had a wonderful 10-year-old son,” she said in her video from March 29, “but he yearned for a bigger family.”
After four rounds of IVF, Tracy learned that she had made Hunter’s dreams come true.
“The day I found out I was pregnant, was the same day I signed the contract to move forward with our surrogate,” she added.
The mom was off carrying their daughter Harlow — and then their surrogate revealed that she was pregnant with twin girls.
Four months after Tracy gave birth to Harlow, their surrogate gave birth to their twins Piper and Presley.
“So when I had these three little babies at home, I found out I was pregnant again,” she added. This time with a boy, Dylan James, who was delivered at 29 weeks.
Hunter is now 15 years old, Harlow is 4, Piper and Presley are 4, and Dylan is 3, and the family now documents their big family on their TikTok page.
People in comments section were stunned by the mom's story.
"That’s an amazing story," wrote one commenter.
"As an only child this is the best gift for your son!" someone else wrote.
While a third commenter joked: "Kid: can I have a sibling? Mom: BET."
Other people joked that perhaps the mom had gone a little too far to make her son's dream come true.
"I don’t think brother knew what he was asking for but you definitely understood the assignment," one person commented. "Beautiful family."
"All these wonderful comments and all I can think is you gotta be careful what you ask for," another person joked.
"Big brother learned be careful what you wish for bc you might just get it!!" a third commenter chimed in.
But in a follow up video, it seems like Hunter is really relishing this whole big brother thing.
“It’s crazy, I am the most protective brother — I am so beyond protective it’s insane,” he explained.
He said that he and his much younger siblings bond over watching Pixar movies and “old Disney movies that I watched when I was a kid, like Cars.”
“Dylan is the best little brother I could’ve asked for,” he continued. “I’m not sure I can say the same about the three girls,” he joked.
But overall, Hunter said he loves that he gets to teach his younger siblings things — that’s the best part of the gig.
