--- title: More Than $310,000 Raised for Father Raising Quadruplets Alone After Wife Dies During Childbirth description: His wife, Erica, died of blood loss on Jan. 16 while giving birth to their quadruplets two months prematurely canonical: https://time.com/3736374/quadruplets-father/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-07T20:44:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:49.156Z og:title: More Than $310,000 Raised for Father Raising Quadruplets Alone After Wife Dies During Childbirth og:description: His wife, Erica, died of blood loss on Jan. 16 while giving birth to their quadruplets two months prematurely og:url: https://time.com/3736374/quadruplets-father/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7da7c3e8d3799b4/6987818f2dce017e0a9ddcd9/mother-dies-quadruplets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1600 og:image:height: 900 og:image:alt: Quadruplets born to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Jan. 15, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: More Than $310,000 Raised for Father Raising Quadruplets Alone After Wife Dies During Childbirth twitter:description: His wife, Erica, died of blood loss on Jan. 16 while giving birth to their quadruplets two months prematurely twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7da7c3e8d3799b4/6987818f2dce017e0a9ddcd9/mother-dies-quadruplets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # More Than $310,000 Raised for Father Raising Quadruplets Alone After Wife Dies During Childbirth > Sponsored content. 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Erica Morales, 36, died on Jan. 16, shortly after giving birth to the quadruplets. She never got the chance to see her babies or hold them in her arms. “She should be here,” Carlos tells PEOPLE. “It’s slowly getting a little bit easier.” Erica became pregnant with four babies through IVF but died after she went into hypovolemic shock, an emergency condition involving [severe blood loss](http://time.com/3727307/carlos-morales-quadruplets-childbirth/). One of the things that Carlos finds comfort in is knowing that he doesn’t just have support from his family and friends, but also from more than 8,700 strangers who have donated to a [GoFundMe page](http://www.gofundme.com/kbkpag) his friend created. In total, over $310,00 has been raised to date. “To think that so many people are giving me whatever they can afford makes me smile,” he says. “Every single penny will help so I can give my babies a great life.” Carlos, who works in manufacturing in Phoenix, Arizona, hopes he makes the right decisions for his and Erica’s children. “I don’t want to mess up. Erica always wanted children and so did I,” he says. “These four babies were a blessing so I will make it work. I have to.” His mother-in-law watches over Carlos Jr. and Tracy at home while he goes to the hospital to see Erica and Paisley, who will be going home any day now. All four were born around three pounds, but they’re slowly growing and have now made it past the five-pound mark. The four cribs at Carlos’s house are all lined up next to each other in the bedroom right next to his. As the newborns grow stronger each day, so does their dad. “I can’t wait for us all to be together,” he says. “Seeing their tiny smiling faces gives me courage.” At the same time though, he sees his late wife Erica when he looks at them. “She gives me strength he says,” he says. “Even when I feel lost.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3736374/quadruplets-father/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3736374/quadruplets-father/"},"headline":"More Than $310,000 Raised for Father Raising Quadruplets Alone After Wife Dies During Childbirth","datePublished":"2015-03-07T20:44:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:49.156Z","description":"His wife, Erica, died of blood loss on Jan. 16 while giving birth to their quadruplets two months prematurely","url":"https://time.com/3736374/quadruplets-father/","keywords":["Living","Family"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7da7c3e8d3799b4/6987818f2dce017e0a9ddcd9/mother-dies-quadruplets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"People","jobTitle":"Contributor","url":"https://time.com/author/people/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7da7c3e8d3799b4/6987818f2dce017e0a9ddcd9/mother-dies-quadruplets.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Quadruplets born to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Jan. 15, 2015","caption":"Quadruplets born to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Jan. 15, 2015","creditText":"Nicole Todman—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3736374/quadruplets-father/","name":"More Than $310,000 Raised for Father Raising Quadruplets Alone After Wife Dies During Childbirth"}}]}] ```