AUBURN, Ala. (WSFA) - When Becca Bryant found out she was pregnant, she was excited to add a fourth child to her family. What the family didn't expect is it wouldn't just be adding a fourth kid, but also a fifth, sixth and seventh.

The quadruplets - Kali, Koen, Laney and Lennon - were born premature at 23 weeks and four days.

Because of their early birth, they had to spend five to six months in the neonatal intensive care. The last one was brought home on Dec. 10, just weeks before Christmas.

"We get closer to Christmas and our last one's still in the NICU, and I'm like come on, come on, come on, let's go home, let's go home," Bryant said. "So now that we're all here, I'm so excited. I cannot wait to get all of them in front of the tree and take a picture."

Having three more kids than you're expecting is sure to put a financial strain on any family, but the community has made sure the Bryant family has all of its needs covered.

"We are very blessed to say that we have not bought a single diaper yet, and we've had people send gift cards, and we've had people send cash," she said. "We wouldn't make it without that."

The parents are also getting much-needed help from their older kids.

"Once they started trickling home, they were all excited, and they just couldn't wait. They wanted to hold them, they wanted to help, they wanted to get their clothes, they wanted to do their bottles, and they still want to do all that stuff," said Bryant.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 148 sets of quadruplets or higher-order births in 2023. That's the lowest number since it started collecting data in 1998.