A woman has died moments after giving birth to quadruplets conceived through IVF.
Erica Morales, 36, and her husband Carlos underwent fertility treatment in a desperate attempt to conceive to complete their family.
Finally, on Thursday, Mrs Morales delivered three girls and one boy at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, one month before the due date.
Just hours later she passed away before she got a chance to meet her children: Carlos Jr, Paisley, Tracy, and Erica
Doctors have launched an instant investigation to determine a cause of death which is as yet unknown.
The children are all alive and healthy.
On Tuesday Mrs Morales went into hospital with a swollen foot and tests showed her blood pressure to be 190/90.
She wrote on Facebook: 'He said I have to get admitted until delivery. It's been down lower today but it's too late.
'He will keep me and he ordered some labs.
'He will push deliver up or stall it to to 34 weeks. I'm 31 tomorrow. He said I did phenomenal. A poster child for quads. He wish they could all go this way but this last part we have to do it carefully because u can stroke out with bad blood pressure. I'm sure I won't but he looking at how to finish things.'
After explaining that it would definitely be a premature birth, Mrs Morales added: 'I always want more but sometimes you just have to sit back and thank God for blessing up to this point and put it fully in his hands. Thanks for the prayers and everything else.'
Tributes have flooded in for Mrs Morales, a real estate broker from Memphis, Tennessee, who married Carlos in October 2007.
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