Thanks for all the kind words. Those of you who mentioned how hard it will be are probably correct. A grand/month in diapers alone.
This is as "public" as we've gone with it.
Our friends and family seem to think we could parlay our situation into all sorts of free stuff... food, formula, a vehicle... etc. Stacy and I are hesitant to do anything like this since there are already plenty of people within our borders who need the help more desperately than us.
Those of you who mentioned abortion, (correct term: selective reduction) will you please come to Arizona, see our ultrasound, and tell me which healthy fetuses I should kill? I appreciate that you are concerned for the overall pregnancy and so are we, but having to end the life of a perfectly healthy fetus is something neither I nor my wife is capable of. Maybe my beliefs are old fashioned.... I think each one deserves a chance as long as it is healthy.
One other possibility is that one or more of the fetuses may fizzle out on it's/their own. Often, but not always, the woman's body will end the life of a chromosome deficient baby. so there's 6 for now but by the end of the first trimester there may be less. (She's 7.5 weeks along now)
We have been trying to have children for 10 years now. Some may see this as a curse, I can see it as a blessing and nothing else. I'm not blind to the potential problems and awesome responsibility(at least to what length I can imagine it) of raising 6 kids. It's just that, at least for now, there are 6 lives there and we feel responsible for all of them.
We prayed, and our friends and family prayed that we would have children this time around. God is not without a sense of humor.
