Ooooooo baby, baby!!
We are finally EXPECTING!!!!!!! You have no idea how amazing that feels to finally say!
The last several months held a whirlwind of emotions, excitements, disappoints, and down right heart aches and breaks. Some know, some do not... last August I suffered from a miscarriage. I was 6 weeks and 1 day pregnant when I went in to the ER with a threatened miscarriage... At 7 weeks I miscarried. God in some kind of crazy way, prepared me for the heartache. I'm not sure how He manages to be so awesome, but as down, low, depressed, and dark I felt.... God was still right there in the valley with me. I spent many days and nights crying and down right mad that God would take my child from me. However, I spent many days close in His presence knowing that some day I will see that sweet precious child again.
For the next several months we wanted to get pregnant again, but it just wasn't happening as "quickly" as I thought it should. September, October, November.... Still no baby. I finally decided I was done getting my hopes up and done "trying". I finally accepted that God would bring us another child when He was ready and knew we were ready.
December 30th- "Hey hunny, what's the date today?" As my husband proceeded to tell me it was the 30th I quickly realized I was beyond "late". I was also feeling extremely lightheaded, fatigued, dizzy, and all around just like crap. Although I fought the urge, I finally caved and purchased a pregnancy test.
That feeling when you see two lines parallel to each other on a little white strip of plastic... Yup, that's what happened!
We were so excited and beyond thrilled and since I already felt disgusting I started this pregnancy a little more hopeful. That night I walked into what would be our baby room, (although nothing of that sort was on my mind when I walked in the room) and proceeded to close the curtains. As I glanced out the window to close the curtain I saw one little star in a very overcast sky(what Tade referred to as a "baby" star.) It wasn't so much that star that grabbed my attention, but it was the absolute, undeniable peace that flooded my being. I closed the curtain with tears welling up in my eyes and walked out of the room. Almost a week later I went in for blood work which returned back with HCG levels over 30,000! (That's a really good thing!) Another week later I was ushered in for an ultrasound. The first thing we saw as the doppler pressed against my stomach was a beautiful little heart beating away. Heart rate of 121 to be exact. The following week we went in to meet with my doctor and my uterus had grown equivalent with 8 weeks, so the baby was clearly growing. At 9 weeks we went in for an ultrasound again. Our beautiful little baby had an amazingly strong heart rate of 171 and was moving around!!!! I began to ball like a baby. I was almost in disbelief of this beautiful healthy baby growing abundantly in my stomach.
All this to say... that brings us here. 10 weeks pregs, and an ever growing belly! We decided after bloodwork, 2 ultrasounds, and a doctors appointment, (not to mention an undeniable peace) we were ready to share our good news with everyone. We ask for continued prayer for this beautiful child, a peace that surpasses all understanding, and above all good health.
I'm so excited that you also will be able to witness with us a little miracle in the making! Woot woot!
Bye for now!
Alysha
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