PHOENIX (AP) — A woman died hours after giving birth to quadruplets at a Phoenix hospital, a close friend of the family said Saturday. 
 
 This photo provided by Nicole Todman shows one of quadruplets born prematurely to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Morales died hours after giving birth and did not get... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo provided by Nicole Todman shows one of quadruplets born prematurely to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Morales died hours after giving birth and did not get... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo provided by Nicole Todman shows one of quadruplets born prematurely to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Morales died hours after giving birth and did not get... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo provided by Nicole Todman shows one of quadruplets born prematurely to Erica Morales at a Phoenix hospital on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Morales died hours after giving birth and did not get... (Associated Press) 
 
 Erica Morales, 36, never got to hold her newborns before she passed away early Friday morning after a C-section surgery at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Nicole Todman said. 
 
 "They were transporting her from the surgery to whatever room, and she was still unconscious at that point. So, no, she never got to see them," Todman said. 
 
 Morales was about seven months into her pregnancy when she delivered three girls and one boy Thursday, according to Todman. She has been one of the few able to visit the premature newborns and said they are doing well. 
 
 "They're beautiful," Todman said. "They have tubes in their mouths and their noses. They've got little monitors and wires all over their body." 
 
 The infants will likely remain hospitalized for the next two months while doctors help them to get stronger and each reach a goal weight of 5 pounds, Todman said. Currently, they all weigh between just above 2 pounds to just above 3 pounds, she said. 
 
 Morales was initially hospitalized for high blood pressure. Complications ensued before Morales was taken into surgery, Todman said. She does not know what led to her passing. 
 
 "I don't even care to know," Todman said. "It doesn't matter why. She's still gone." 
 
 Hospital spokeswoman Toni Eberhardt declined comment Saturday, but she released a statement from the hospital: "Our heartfelt thoughts and condolences are with the family during this very difficult time." 
 
 Morales, a former real estate agent who more recently worked for the University of Phoenix, and her husband, Carlos, who works in manufacturing, had been trying to conceive a baby for two years, Todman said. She said Morales tried everything from acupuncture to fertility treatments. Morales suffered a miscarriage before becoming pregnant last June. 
 
 Todman, who has been best friends with Morales since childhood, said Morales was more nervous about being a new mother than raising four children at once. Because of her previous miscarriage, Morales was apprehensive about getting too excited about the babies' arrival. She mainly focused on doing things correctly throughout her pregnancy such as eating enough, Todman said. 
 
 "Her focus of her pregnancy was to make sure she did everything to make sure they were healthy so she was able to bring them into this world — and she did," Todman said. 
 
 On Friday, Todman started a GoFundMe fundraising website for Carlos Morales and the infants on Friday. The site had received more than $29,000 in donations as of Saturday afternoon. 
 
 "I'm so grateful for the overwhelming support and the wonderful comments, and so are Carlos and Sandra, Erica's mother. They are so entirely grateful," Todman said. ||||| PHOENIX, Arizona - The quadruplets of Phoenix mom Erica Morales, who died right after childbirth, are doing well, family members said. 
 
 Baby girls Paisley, Tracey and Erica and baby boy Carlos were born Thursday night, seven months into Morales' pregnancy. All four them weighed between 2 to 3 pounds, reports CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix. 
 
 Morales, however, entered the hospital with high blood pressure last Tuesday, and didn't survive giving birth. 
 
 Nicole Todman/GoFundMe 
 
 "She loved them she was so happy to welcome them to this world," Erica's friend, Nicole Todman, told KPHO. "She loved their father and he loved her and that they will never be without love." 
 
 Morales never got to hold her kids, Todman said, because she was unconscious by the time they were delivered by C-section. 
 
 Officials have yet to release an official cause of death. 
 
 Morales, a real estate agent, and her husband, Carlos, who works in manufacturing, had been trying to conceive a baby for two years, Todman said. She said Morales tried everything from acupuncture to fertility treatments. Morales suffered a miscarriage before becoming pregnant last June. Nicole and Christina Todman told KPHO they consider themselves Erica's sisters. The three had known each other since grade school. They were there Thursday when Erica went into deliver her. 
 
 "We are here for this," Christina Todman said. "We are here to be a mother figure for these children because they are never going to meet their biological mother. They are going to have it through us, they are going to have it through their mother." 
 
 Todman, who has been best friends with Morales since childhood, said Morales was more nervous about being a new mother than raising four children at once. Because of her previous miscarriage, Morales was apprehensive about getting too excited about the babies' arrival. She mainly focused on doing things correctly throughout her pregnancy such as eating enough, Todman said. 
 
 "Her focus of her pregnancy was to make sure she did everything to make sure they were healthy so she was able to bring them into this world -- and she did," Todman said. 
 
 The Todman sisters along with Erica's husband, Carlos, created a Go Fund Me account for people to donate. As of Sunday afternoon, they had raised nearly $67,000.
– Erica Morales had always dreamed of being a mother, her friends say, but she died before she could even hold the quadruplets she gave birth to on Thursday night. The 36-year-old had been admitted to the hospital with high blood pressure Tuesday and died in intensive care soon after the four babies were delivered by C-section. She had been about seven months into her pregnancy, and family members say the quadruplets—girls Paisley, Tracey, and Erica, and boy Carlos—are doing well in the hospital, where they will probably remain for the next two months, CBS reports. They weigh between 2 and 3 pounds each. Christina and Nicole Todman, Morales' cousins and best friends, tell the AP that Morales and her husband, Carlos, had been trying to conceive for two years, and after an earlier miscarriage, she had focused on doing "everything to make sure they were healthy so she was able to bring them into this world—and she did." "We are here to be a mother figure for these children because they are never going to meet their biological mother," Christina tells KPHO. Family members say there were complications before Morales was taken into surgery, but it's not yet clear what went wrong.