Fast Forward - 49 Days to GO!

It's hard to believe it has been ~7 months since I found out we were going to have a baby - and ~4 months since we found out we were having a baby girl :-)

The first 12 weeks/1st trimester seemed to pass by slowly but after that, everything has been moving at the speed of light.

I am so grateful that this has been a "boring" pregnancy; no complications, healthy vitals for me and the baby, and minimal symptoms. I guess we went through enough on the front end which now in hindsight doesn't seem so bad, but at the time felt like some of the biggest challenges I'd ever gone through.

The 3rd trimester is officially in full swing and since I am scheduled for a C-section no later than week 39, we have 49 days until we meet our sweet bundle of joy! 

We are currently accepting name suggestions ;-)

My Journey - Part VI

Sooooo...I've been MIA for awhile and I know I am way overdue for a post.

To pick up where I last left off here, I was finally able to regulate my progesterone levels and in about 3 months we found out we were PREGNANT! Praise God! Yes..surprisingly enough, it was a shock that it happened, when it happened. That month was a challenging month for conception. Between my husband traveling for work, us both getting sick with the flu (recovering with Tamiflu), traveling for the holidays, not to mention the typical holiday stress, I thought we up against too many odds. But that really confirmed to me that when God speaks and confirms something to your heart, no obstacle...no insurmountable odds.... nothing, can come against it. 

When I started questioning the whole fertility journey and became really discouraged back in October of last year, I cried and prayed about it and heard God say that we would conceive by the end of the year. So I remained hopeful, but of course wavered when the circumstances didn't seem to add up with His word. Sure enough at the very last possible moment, He revealed His perfect timing. At the end of December, after returning home for the holidays, I noticed some changes in my appetite and energy levels. I figured it was probably due to the fact that 2-3 weeks prior, I had recovered from the flu and my system was still off. But even after a day of recuperating from traveling I still didn't feel like celebrating New Year's Eve - which was out of the norm for me. So I took the plunge and pulled out a HPT (Home Pregnancy Test), even though I had become pretty skeptical about their accuracy. On the very last night of the year, we were ecstatic and humbled to celebrate the new life God had promised.

Psalm 113:9

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, And to be a joyful mother of children. 

Praise ye Jehovah.

My encouragement to others on this reproductive journey is to keep looking and watching for God's word, and not your circumstances or obstacles. If He has ordained it for you, it will come to pass at the perfected time.