Ali is pregnant with quadruplets, which she says was both a blessing but also a shock, especially for Adam. "I said four and he said two. So I thought maybe we could settle on three. I got my way in the long run," she said with a laugh.

The whole Brunswick community is pitching in to help them prepare. Residents came together on June 13 for a community-wide shower to honor the couple and their growing family. The local fire station where Adam volunteers was filled with friends and family, but someone was missing.

At her appointment, the day before the shower, doctors decided it was best for the babies and the mom-to-be to put Ali on bedrest. Ali said, "It's very difficult. My husband has learned to do a lot of things he did not do before."

Her sister Megan Creed, who helped to plan the shower, was also at the appointment. "I was wanting to beg the doctor for one more day, but i knew it wasn't possible," she said.

But this is far from the first bump in the road. Ali has Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which prevents her body from ovulating, making it nearly impossible to get pregnant. But Adam and Ali, who have known each other since grade school, always wanted children.

So they decided Ali would start on fertility medications.  "He got her up to four times the regular dose of Clomid, and she still wouldn't ovulate, " Megan said. After more than a year, the couple was still unable to conceive. Ali remembers how difficult that time was.  "You come home crying every night that you went to the doctor thinking that it still hadn't happened," she said.

Ali and Adam decided to take the next step--ovulation injections. They injections cost close to five hundred dollars a vial and were not covered by insurance.

The cost paid off as the couple got greast news: Ali was pregnant with twins. Next time she went to the doctor, he was as shocked as the couple to discover the babies had multiplied. Ali was now carrying quadruplets. "Ali told stories of Adam driving the whole way home, picking up the ultrasound picture and putting it down. He kept looking at it multiple times. "Ali said, 'It's not gonna change, there's still four babies in there'" Megan said.

The doctor asked them to consider selective reduction, meaning that they could abort some of the babies. But for the Reicherts, that was never an option, and that meant everything in their lives would be multiplied by four.

Caring for four newborns can be quite an expense. The average newborn uses about seven diapers a day, or 200 diapers in a month. So the average family would need four 50 packs per month.  For the Reicherts, it will take 800 diapers, or 16 packs per month.

Ali is now 25 weeks pregnant, and doctors hope she will make it to 30 before delivering. Ali and Adam have decided to name the girls Gracie Rae and Emory Danielle and the boys Jaxon Dale and Brody Cole.

Adam makes the hour and a half drive to Columbia to vist Ali almost every day. Her sisters brought her mememtos from the shower, including pictures, a list of people who volunteered to babysit, as well as leftover cake.

If you would like to make a donation to the Reichert family, you can send them to 402 N Washington St, Brunswick, MO 65236 or you can email Ali at AliCreed@hotmail.com  Also, check out the web extras, including Megan's letter describing Ali's experiences, as well as more information about Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.