It looks like the quadruplets with a link to Hollister are getting more famous by the year, and they just recently turned 1.
After Ashley Adams and her husband gave birth to their quadruplets in August 2012, CNN featured the family and additional challenges faced when the mother learned – during her high-risk pregnancy – that she had thyroid cancer. In addition to fraternal twins Wyatt and Rylie, the identical twins Braelynn and Samantha shared the same amniotic sac, which can cause additional risks.
While the former Hollister resident Adams and the babies are doing well more than a year later – they live in Aurora, Colo., where her husband is stationed with the U.S. Army – they had a surprise visitor who brought a television crew. Dr. Travis Stork from the TV show “The Doctors” arrived at Adams’ doorstep Oct. 20 to kick off two days of filming for the segment that aired in November.
“I was jaw-dropped,” said Adams, who has a scan scheduled in February to find out if the cancer is gone, in a phone interview with the Free Lance.
She said she was not expecting the visit from the famous doctor and the TV crew.
“It was pretty fun. It was a good surprise,” Adams said.
Her mother, Connie Cooklin of Hollister, said someone from the show called her and asked her to have her daughter come to the door while holding two babies. Cooklin was in Aurora at the time as well.
“They had to film it twice because we were so shocked,” Cooklin said.
Cooklin said that on the first day with the crew, it was just a producer and the family interviewing about such matters as her stay in the hospital when pregnant, the timing of the cancer discovery and what it was like bringing the babies home.
The next day, Stork arrived from his home in Breckenridge, Colo., and was filmed with the family. He interviewed her there, tried feeding the babies by himself and played with the children, Cooklin said. When the segment aired, it was on for six minutes, she said.
She noted that Adams hopes to return to California at some point so she can be closer to her family in Hollister.
“It’s hard not having people around to help out,” Cooklin said.
As for the cancer, Adams’ next scan is scheduled for February. The quadruplets, meanwhile, are healthy 1-year-olds.
“They’re becoming taller way too fast,” Adams said. “Now we’re having to rearrange our home again.”
