When Casi Rott first held her newborn triplets, she was the happiest she had ever been. Little did she know that the time she spent with them was a short moment the children would never remember.
Casi Rott’s pregnancy was relatively smooth. She and her husband Joey did all the tests and took all the necessary steps to ensure things were in tip-top shape. They had nothing to worry about — or so they thought.
When Casi discovered that she was pregnant with triplets — a high-risk pregnancy — she was advised to take a fertility drug that would induce early labor, but she declined and chose to carry the babies until 34 weeks.In her third trimester, the Kansas mom temporarily moved from their rural farmhouse to Wichita to be closer to medical help in case she needed it. On January 29, 2016, Casi underwent a C-section to give birth to three healthy babies at 34 weeks, and they were kept in the hospital under strict observation.
The proud mother recovered quickly and was soon discharged; however, two days later, she woke with a sharp pain in her chest and a racing heart. Something was very wrong.
Her husband rushed her to the hospital, and a CT scan showed that she had a blood clot in her lungs. Additional tests were run, and two days later, she was discharged once more. Thinking the worst was over, the couple headed to the NICU to hold their triplets — Asher, Levi, and Piper — for a few hours.
Afterward, they left to make a two-and-a-half-hour drive back to their farmhouse in Clay Center, Kansas, where their two older daughters, Tenley, then two, and Chloe, then 6, were waiting.
They left their triplets at the NICU when they left for Clay Center, thinking they would return the next day for them, but things did not go the way they planned.
When they arrived home, Casi, thrilled to be back after spending days in the hospital after the clot was found, got back into the rhythm of life as a mother. She did the laundry, folded the baby clothes, pumped breast milk, and baked some cookies.
When Joey went to pick up their daughters from daycare, he told them he had a surprise waiting for them at home, raising their expectations…CONTINUE READING