Los Angeles ? Angela Magdaleno was raising six other children and using a variety of birth-control methods – the latest being the contraceptive patch.

She said she was stunned when doctors told her that she was carrying quadruplets.

“She didn’t do this on purpose,” said Dr. Kathryn Shaw, who delivered Magdaleno and Alfredo Anzaldo’s triplets and their quadruplets. “She was not at all elated, and not excited about the fact that they were quadruplets.”

All are healthy, Shaw says, but weighed between 3 and 4 pounds at birth. They remained at White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles long enough to gain weight, then came home this week.