Life for 30-year-old Melissa Reid, of Dove Creek, has been all about the numbers since she brought her quadruplets home.

Thirty-six diapers a day.

Four hours between feedings.

Eight kids in the house.

One 13-ounce can of condensed formula a day.

Thirty-two bottles a day.

Her four babies – Ryder, Aela, Kamden and Brinlee – are doing well, and at 3 months. The quadruplets were born July 28 in Denver, and, because they were premature, didn’t go home to Dove Creek home until Aug. 24. Since then, the family has been settling into a routine.

“It was pretty hectic at first, but it actually is easy once we got them on a schedule,” Melissa said.

“We are just really happy they are all healthy,” she said.

Statistically, there is one quadruplet birth for every 700,000 births. Melissa and Matt Reid weren’t using fertility medicine or even trying to have a baby. So that makes the chances of such a birth about 1 in a million.

The couple already had four children in the house: Gauge, 12, Tanol, 10, Jesslyn, 6, and Zaylee, 22 months.

When Melissa went to her doctor, he joked that she was going to have a litter.

“That was before he found out I was going to have four babies,” she said. “When he found out, he called me right away and apologized about the joke. But he was so excited for us.”

Melissa initially was told that she would have five babies.

“I was shocked,” she said. “You don’t want to know what I said.”

Later, the family got additional news when Matt was laid off from his factory job in Nevada. That’s when Melissa made the decision to move closer to family in Dove Creek. Matt said Tuesday that he’s now working at a hardware store in Dove Creek.

There are two girls and two boys, and they are all fraternal quadruplets, meaning they developed from different eggs.

Melissa says there is a reason for everything. She used to work with people with mental disabilities, a job that required a lot of patience. That job is what prepared her for being a mother of eight, she said.

“It taught me to be very, very patient,” she said. “There really is a reason for everything.”

Melissa said her mom has been a big help, and a local church buys the family diapers. In addition, community members have given the family food and clothing.

“We’ve had tons of community support,” Melissa said.