The Lord has been good to us and he sure has a sense of humor. Let me just tell you the story!
About a year ago we decided to start trying for another baby. We prayed and let God take care of the situation and decided to not do fertility treatments again and to see what God had in store for us. So I was put on Femara to help me become "regular" again. (Some of this may be to personal but I don't care, it's our story and our blog!) I was on Femara for a while and was having off the wall cycles. I lost a few pounds and then started to become a little bit more regular but nothing was happening. In mid August we decided to see the new doctor with Fertility Associates of Memphis's, Dr Brezina, who makes 2 visits to Tupelo a month for a consult to discuss our options. We had gone with this clinic before to get pregnant with the boys so we decided to go back to them and just talk about everything. During that appointment Dr. Brezina told me that I was different than most women. He told me "As I get older it's going to be much easier for me to get pregnant" whereas it's the oppposite for most women because it's easier for them to get pregnant when they are younger. God just made me different. He urged me to stay on Femara and Metformin. So off we went with that advice and scheduled a follow-up appointment in late September to discuss our plans if I was not pregnant by then. We were worried because his plan was for us to try our best NOT to have a twin pregnancy and just to have a single pregnancy so we were placed with different options for that.
Doug and I both decided to give it to God and let him be the decision maker. We studied his word, prayed every day and just literally gave it all to God and put it in HIS hands. We both decided that if it was God's decision for us to have another baby then he would make it possible because "HE knows the plans he has for us!"
During this waiting time, we scheduled a time to meet with Dr. Brewer who is the new Maternal Fetal Specialist in Tupelo. We would talk to him to see what he could do to help us carry a baby full term or possibly tell us if it would be wise for us to become pregnant again. He told us based off the last pregnancy and that after reviewing my records that it was more of a growth problem for the boys and that if I got pregnant there are procedures and shots we could do to decrease the risk of preterm labor. It would be easier to decrease my chances on a single pregnancy but that we would work together if I did get pregnant with twins again. That appointment was on September 19th which was my husband's birthday and the day before the NICU reunion in which we saw all the girls preparing for the reunion and they started getting excited because they thought we were pregnant.
Here's where it gets funny and God's humor shows up.
On September 18th I wasn't feeling quite well so I decided to take a pregnancy test and of course it was negative but the lines weren't showing up well so I went and got a digital test. I went on about my day and decided to take the test again the next morning which so happened to be Doug's birthday. I was thinking to myself wouldn't it be great to have a positive test on Doug's birthday. Wishful thinking I was doing, huh! Well I took the digital test that morning and proceeded to get ready for work. Doug was still in the bed when I looked at it. When I saw the "pregnant" results I couldn't believe my eyes and thought I was still asleep. SO I raced in the bedroom to wake Doug up and said "here's your birthday present" and showed him the test. He looked at me, started crying (we both were actually) and said "I had a gut feeling God was trying to tell me something yesterday." What an awesome gift he had on his birthday. Just an FYI we found out about 3 years ago on Doug's birthday that were having twins so I guess God has a sense of humor. September 19th is a day that is very special to us from now on.
On this same day, September 19th, was the day we were meeting with Dr. Brewer to talk to him about our possibilites, plus we had to go confirm the blood test at our OB's office. Well I got the results later that day and of course it was confirmed positive. So on Saturday we had the NICU reunion and we were dying to tell our sweet friends the good news but couldn't. Then we had to keep the BABIES on Sunday in the church nursery and then we had a follow-up appointment with Dr Brezina in Memphis on Monday. Well, I had to of course cancel and reschedule our appointment with Dr Brezina to October 8th (My Birthday) for an ultrasound. If God was trying to tell us something he SURE was making a large statement and fulling his purpose and plan for our lives. He definitely has a sense of humor and was teaching us patience and that our plans are not always HIS plans.
So on October 8th, MY BIRTHDAY, we went to Memphis and heard and saw the most precious gift God has given us again. Baby Penny is measuring about a week behind schedule which the doctors are not concerned about it and had a great heartbeat of 119 bpm and was just perfect all around. Please remember that we had NOT done any fertility treatments and were just on a simple medication to help the process. God decided for us that we would have only ONE baby and that he didn't want us to make that decision on which treatment we needed to do to get pregnant with just one baby and not two! I've never seen any doctor so shocked and with the biggest smile on his face like Dr. Brezina had when we saw him and he didn't have to do anything to help us.
We are still early (I'm around 7 weeks right now) and have a long way to go so we covet your prayers for Baby Penny and ask that you pray for a healthy and full term baby. Even though we LOVE our Nicu friends, we really don't want to be back there. We ask that you pray specifically for the doctors that will monitor me and the baby and that they will have the wisdom and knowledge to do the right things and make the right decisions to help us go to 40 weeks. GOD is SO GOOD and he is in control and his plan is far more perfect than ours! We are lifting our hands to HIM and praising HIM for this glorious news. We ask that God will use this pregnancy to Glorify HIS name!
Doug's birthday present
My birthday present
