CLEVELAND — Meri and Andrew Ferrari, a Northeast Ohio couple, are parents to two daughters, Paige and Lacy.

Lacy, the younger of the two, was born two months early in December 2020. Then in January of 2022, the unimaginable happened.

What You Need To Know

  • Meri and Andrew Ferrari lost their daughter Lacy in Jan. 2022 

  • Nearly two years later, they had quadruplets 

  • The couple overcoming tragedy and now learning to take care of four babies 

“She ended up passing away at 13 months, actual would’ve been 11 months adjusted because she was born early, from sudden unexplained infant death syndrome complicated by COVID and Rhinovirus,” Meri Ferrarisaid.

“Losing Lacy was definitely, I can honestly say, the most painful thing I’ve ever been through,” Andrew Ferrari said.

About a year later, the couple began trying for children, which they used fertility treatments to do. 

"We wanted to have one more baby, and it turned into four," Andrew Ferrari said.

The couple was in shock after finding out they were going to have quadruplets.

“We saw two babies on the ultrasound at first. ‘I’m thinking okay twins, we can do that, because I’m a twin, so I was like okay.’ Then the ultrasound tech goes, ‘Well here’s heartbeat number three’ and I’m like okay in my mind ‘I’m like triplets, we can do triplets, triplets are okay’ and she’s like, ‘Here’s heartbeat number four’,” Meri Ferrari said.

Paige, the eldest sister, continues to grieve the loss of her sister Lacy, but was excited when she found out she was going to have three baby brothers and one baby sister.

“I was so excited I feel like I was going to scream my head off,” Paige said.

The quadruplets are now over a little three-months-old and Meri and Andrew believe Lacy sent the babies to them.

“It makes me want to cry sometimes cause I miss that kid so much, but at the same time I love the fact that each one of them has a little bit of her, so she sorta lives on,” Andrew Ferrari said.