Karen Wesolowski and Martha Padgett are a lesbian couple who each became pregnant using Martha’s eggs and donor sperm. Each woman then gave birth to twins twins, effectively creating a set of quadruplets together. That. Is a lot of babies.

Their story, and pictures of various babies, after the jump:

Miss Wesolowski, a 42-year-old physical therapist, said the couple, who met nine years ago, had tried unsuccessfully for the past three years to have a baby.

‘My biological clock was ticking,’ she added. ‘We had been trying on and off for three years and we were exhausted. We had tried using my eggs and a sperm donor and we had tried using Martha’s eggs in me.

‘We had literally tried everything and had spent tens of thousands of pounds on treatment. So when Martha said to me that we should both have her eggs implanted, I thought, “Why not?”.’

Now the pair, of Riverside, California, are happily cradling twins - one boy and one girl each - who are all quadruplet brothers and sisters.

Martha, 38, gave birth first to babies Sophia and Alex, and Karen gave birth 22 hours later to their siblings Andrew and Sienna.

Alex is the cute one, in case you were wondering. Martha also has one older daughter, Julia, with her ex-husband and explained that meeting and falling in love with Karen came completely unexpectedly for her:

Martha said: ‘My relationship with David had ended because we’d grown apart while he was away with the military.

‘Then I dated a couple of men, and never had any idea of falling for another woman, until I met Karen.’

She added: ‘David is supportive of us and even spends special days with us such as Christmas and Julia’s birthday.’

And so now the couple have a ginormous, happy family to make them all smiley in their mom khakis. (We’re beginning to think it’s actually a prerequisite for motherhood to own a white top and loose-fitting khaki pants.)

Babies hate sporks.

Baby Alex is the one with the hot emo bangs that we intend on borrowing for about 18 years or so.

Lesbian IVF couple who shared eggs and sperm BOTH give birth to twins [Daily Mail]