As you might have guess from the title of this post, YES, WE ARE PREGNANT! After taking two pregnancy tests (Gene wanted to be sure), we found out on July 14th that we would soon be parents! And for those of you who want to know, "Were you trying?", yes we were. After only trying for one month, Gene was very proud to say, "Well, I guess all those years of drinking Mountain Dew really DIDN'T have any affect on me!" (I'm still trying to get him to cut back, though.)
It's been funny around here because Gene and I refer to each other as "Babe," so when we started throwing "Baby" into the mix, sometimes I'm not sure if he's refering to me or the little one inside of me!
Well, that week after we found out, I started having complications. My dr. wanted to see me right away, at only 5 weeks along. They did blood tests and a sonogram. The sonogram came up empty but the blood tests were looking good! Our dr. pretty much gave us a 50/50 chance of having a normal pregnancy.
I've been going back to the dr. each week to do more blood tests and sonograms. At last week's appointment, the sonogram came up empty again, which led the dr. to start preparing us for how a miscarriage would take place. We left the dr. office with little hope that we would ever get to hold the little one inside of me.
The next day the nurse told me that my blood work had shown that things still looked good! Her words were, "It looks like we might still have something here!" That news fills us with hope as we prepare for our next appointment, today at 1:30.
One thing is certain, Gene and I don't know how we could have made it this far without the prayers and encouragement from our church and other friends and family. Just when I would start to doubt God or begin to break down in tears, I would receive a text message or email from a friend saying that she was praying for me right then! How amazing is God's love towards us! We are hoping that in March we will be able to tell our little baby that God sustained his/her life through the many prayers of our church and family.
I recently received this quote from Gospel Primer the other day from a friend who has been in my situation and knows what grace there is for trials such as these.
"More than anything else could ever do, the gospel enables me to embrace my tribulations and thereby position myself to gain full benefit from them. For the gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me. When I view my circumstances in this light, I realize that the gospel is not just one piece of good news that fits into my life somewhere among all the bad. I realize instead that the gospel makes genuinely good news out of every other aspect of my life, including my severest trials. The good news about my trials is that God is forcing them to bow to His gospel purposes and do good unto me by improving my character and making me more conformed to the image of Christ. Preaching the gospel to myself each day provides a lens through which I can view my trials in this way and see the true cause of intelligent rejoicing that exists in them. I can embrace them as friends and allow them to do God's good work in me."
Would you please join us in praying for this precious baby right now?
(We'll post again later today after my appointment.)
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