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Hannah Merton and her husband tried for a baby for two years before getting pregnant with quintuplets

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, she details her children's premature birth and the various health scares her children endured over the next year

Merton, who now has close to 700,000 followers on TikTok, says of her account: “I’m just trying to grow a community — moms supporting moms is my goal”

Hannah Merton still remembers her doctor’s reaction when her week five ultrasound revealed she was pregnant with quintuplets.

“Her face just went completely white,” Merton tells PEOPLE. “She had to pull a stool out from behind her, she sits down, and she reaches over and touches my arm and says, ‘I think I see four or five.’ ”

“I’m like, ‘Four or five what? What are you

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