SEATTLE - A couple is both celebrating and grieving the delivery of their quintuplets at the University of Washington Medical Center.

Thursday found Diane Hathaway making the rounds of her babies.

"This is Caleb, He was the first one born," she said touching his tiny head.

Diane and her husband Thad turned to fertility drugs to try to have second baby, but learned at the first ultrasound there would be far more than one.

"At that point I needed to sit down. I needed to know, 'How many are there?" We can't keep going one, two, three, four..." laughed Thad Hathaway.

The couple learned they had five babies on the way.

Diane is a stay at home mom and her husband Thad, is a counselor with the WSU Athletic Department in Pullman.

Diane spent over three months at the hospital on bed rest. When the big day finally came, it took 32 people in the delivery room help bring Caleb, Gabriel, Renae, Allison and Seth into the world. But among all the excited there was grief: One of the baby girls, Renae, was stillborn.

"They were in the position of having four babies that were alive and a baby that died. It's a hard emotional challenge to be in one of more joyous moments of your life and also one of the saddest," said Diane's OB/GYN, Doctor Tom Easterling.

"We just keep turning to our faith, but it will take time to move on," said Thad.

The surviving trio of baby boys and a baby girl will join their 5-year-old older brother, Cody when they finally go home.

The couple's family room is now a nursery. Thad's co-workers are looking at ways to expand their 1,800 square foot house and raising money to provide the babies with trust funds. Family members are planning to take shifts to help with feedings through the night.

"I asked Thad if he was really ready for this. He said it won't be until they are all off to college and 'I'll look at you and say 'WHAT just happened?' " remembered Diane.

All four babies are healthy despite being delivered two months early at 32 weeks into the pregnancy.

"Each one individually is a little bit smaller than the average 32-week baby born, but doing what essentially what any 32-week baby would do at best," said the babies' pediatrician, Dr. David Loren.

The babies weigh about two and a half pounds each. Once they start eating on their own, they can go home -- hopefully just in time for their first Christmas.