Shawn and I have been Very grateful for all the wonderful blessings our Heavenly Father has given us. Our home and wonderful friends, our calling (nursery is the best!), the love and devotion we have for each other, Shawn's job, our families who love us very much, and so so much more! But I think the thing we are most grateful for right now is the most Wonderful Blessing of all!!! We are going to be parents!!! On May 28, 2009 or around then we are going to welcome our baby into this world. If you haven't guessed yet... I'm pregnant! I know. How, you say? Well let me tell you...
On our 3 year anniversary, two days before we turned in our adoption papers, we felt something was different and maybe I should take a test. It came back a very faint positive. At this point we didn't know what to think so we went out and bought 3 more test and I took those. All very faintly positive. At this point we are a little nervous. Last August '08 we had a surprise Ectopic miscarriage or tubular miscarriage. It was very scary and very dangerous. Shawn did a wonderful job taking care of me and I thank my Heavenly Father every day for him! So when we got the faint positive we decided to wait a week and take another test then. In the mean time I wasn't to think about it at all. Ya, Right. When the week was up I took another test and it was very positive within seconds. So we called the doctor. They said if it was ectopic again(which is like an 80% chance) I would be okay for the next few weeks. At that point... lets just say I wasn't doing very well. Shawn gave me a Beautiful blessing that said everything would be okay. My body would be strong enough to carry and have our baby. A week later we went to the doctor and got an ultrasound. Guess what... every thing's okay. (It's still a wonder to me! And yes, I've had to stop and cry many times while writing this.) The doctor is watching me very carefully and I'm getting all the tests and care We need to stay healthy. I do have to take it very easy so that's what I'm trying to do. I'm 13 weeks along and out of the morning sickness stage. Thank goodness! Now I'm just hungry all the time and getting bigger by the hour!
We waited till we were out of the first trimester to say anything to anyone. We didn't want anyone to feel left out so we decided to make the Big announcement on our blog first. That way we wouldn't be telling anyone before anyone else.
Here I am at 12 weeks. Big Belly!
Thanks for reading about our Miracle Baby!!!
(For all of you who may have thought I was expanding some and didn't want to say anything. Now you know I wasn't just letting myself go, I'm growing a baby!)
