Bean’s six week scan today showed one healthy heartbeat. Our reaction can be summarised like this:
One!!
Heartbeat!!
One - not none, not two - one!! healthy!! heartbeat!!
It feels like fate has been playing games with us. A long time ago, when we first started talking about having more kids, the two recurrent themes were:
Sorenson: “gee, I’d really like to go first this time;” and
Bean: “gee, it’d be great to have them close together again, even a little bit closer this time would be good…”
After over a year of IVF hell we had sensibly downgraded our expectations to “gee, it’d be nice for us to both just get pregnant and never have to do IVF ever again.” But here we are, due dates 10 weeks apart, all the odds on our side now to have two healthy babies by the end of the year. “I’ll give you what you want girls,” says Fate, “but I’ll make you suffer for it first.”
We’ve had enough of suffering now, thank you very much. Bring on the celebrations. I want to burn all our IVF related crap. I want to shout out to the world about all our friends who have supported us with babysitting, kind words, patience, food, and love, as we have quivered and shivered our way through the last year. I know that there are no guarantees, and that life with four under three will be no walk in the park, but finally the stats are working for us and the hard stuff will be tempered by the joy of growing our family. I want to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative and sing while we do it. And Arlo and Huey will join in with gusto.
I am beyond thrilled for the four (6!!?) of you.
Comment by jess — March 15, 2010 @ 3:44 pm
hoorah! you’ve made my year. so excited. so looking forward to more babysitting and FOUR kids..lucky you.
Comment by owlie — March 15, 2010 @ 6:29 pm
what lovely (and brave) words. my hurrahs are joining the growing chorus as well. i am so pleased for allll of us.
x
Comment by ohchicken — March 15, 2010 @ 8:34 pm
you girls astound me. good on you. your news made me very happy today. xxxxxxxx
Comment by J-Le — March 15, 2010 @ 8:52 pm
HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY
knitting here continues apace
Comment by Ika — March 15, 2010 @ 10:27 pm
Wow! Woo Hoo! So beyond thrilled for you both. For you all. xoxoxoox
Comment by sarah — March 16, 2010 @ 2:42 am
WIHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO dammed excited for you girls. Congratulations. xxxx
Comment by Beanies — March 19, 2010 @ 9:28 pm
Two more babies ten weeks apart! So awesome. I’m just so happy for all of you!
Comment by E. — March 20, 2010 @ 2:56 am
Well done loves- very happy for you all. More little people to love- brilliant!
Comment by E — March 23, 2010 @ 9:29 pm
nothing like that little heartbeat to make everything right! So glad it is all looking good. xxxxh
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