Its been a long year.
a long year of tests and ultra sounds, of shots and tears, of heartbreak and confusion and lots of money!
but we are finally done with it all because
WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!! PREGNANT, PREGNANT, PREGNANT!I had my blood HCG levels tested on the 31st and they came back at 572mIU/ml
the reason they did a blood test was to determine if I was having a tubule pregnancy.
If the HCG # is to low then that's how they determine a chemical pregnancy or tubal pregnancy or possibly lots of babies.
We only had the levels tested once. They double every 72 hours (i think or 48) so if we had tested it more then once it would be more accurate to determine multiples.
But as of right now I can tell you that our # of 572 is high for a single pregnancy and normal for a twin pregnancy.
for single baby 303 is normal and 514 is high
for twins 499 is normal and 2509 high
so its a big range but I wanted to give you and idea of what we are looking at:)
I had 3 good sized eggs that I ovulated.
we find out on June 20th how many Caskey's we will be adding to our family!
Ill admit my initial reaction for a couple of days actually was relief. Then I got excited!
I know Ill be more excited when I see the little flicker(s) on the screen!
I could hear the sight of relief in Ean's response as well when I told him.
It has just been a long long time.
This guy on the other had was really excited!
(he helped make the shirt)
so excited that he was jumping up and down ;)
and then had to go tell everyone on the farm
okay not really But the Zuccarellis were here ane we had to go pet the goats!
I told him "Chasen, we're gonna have a baby!"
and he gasped a breath of excitement, not relief, and smiled.
Then I said "your gonna be a big brother!"
and he just smiled from ear to ear!
I asked him what kind of baby he wanted and he said "A BIG one"
that's all I really said to him about it.
2 days later he went to daycare and TOLD EVERYONE!!!
one of the other girls there is going to be a big sister and they were talking about her baby and Chasen said "I'm gonna be a big brother"
You can imagine my surprise when I picked him up and Nanny told me congratulations!
I was going to send him to school in a Big Brother shirt in like a month.
Oh well :)
It really doesn't bother me to tell people so early. Everyone knows we are trying and if I'm not talking/blogging about my infertility you must be assuming Im pregnant and that's just rude not to telly you :)
Plus if something bad did happen we would need every one's support any way!
So on that note I'm only 5 weeks pregnant with a due date of Feb. 5th :)
we told everyone in our families over he phone because they all knew we were getting the blood test done.
The only people I got to tell in person were Leigh & Jess and our fiends at Alana and Brittyn's birthday parties this weekend
and Britton and Jordan of course because they were here.
Its funny Britton was the 1st person (besides ean) to know I was pregnant with Chasen and the first person this time too!
Now it's time to weigh in How many babies do you think there are?
I asked chasen how many babies mommy had in her tummy and he said 4.
Garin thinks there are 3 1 boy and 2 girls
I think twins
Ean thinks 1
talking about twins is fun and exciting, but I think if I see 2 flickering heart beats I might pee right there on the table in fear!!!
and he had his very first sleep over with Lily. I wasn't sure he would fall asleep of even stay there but he did! And last weekend he had a sleep over with 6 of his cousins at Grammies house. My lil boy is growing up!
