Great is Thy Faithfulness.
Well.. as most of you already know... WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!!
I know, I know - we can hardly believe it either!! For those of you who have been following my blog/know anything about me - you know that I simply do not ovulate. Ever.. or so we thought :) There are so many details wrapped up in this story - so I will try to condense it as much as humanly possible.
Rewind to 18yrs old. Diagnosed with PCOS.
Fast Forward to February last year - stopped taking birth control & started using the FAM method to chart my temperatures, track ovulation, etc... nothing. For 13 months. In fact, I had to start taking Provera to induce my cycles b/c they dont exist otherwise.
(Now this is the part that we havent yet made public) - Fast Forward to last summer. Steven and I decided to try two rounds of fertility drugs. After two rounds... nothing. Not even ovulation. It was at this point that my doctor told me that we would need to see a fertility specialist in order to conceive... so we decided to wait because we weren't really ready for that financial commitment.
About 6 weeks ago I got a nasty nasty upper respiratory infection that seemed to linger on forever and ever. A week afterwards I decided to go to the doctor & get things checked out. They put me on an antibiotic and gave me some pretty heavy-duty cough syrup (but no they didnt give me the narcotic kind). A few days later I started noticing some things happening to my body that I noticed while on Clomid (trust me, I'll save you the details.). Days after that - I started noticing even more weird things. Tenderness to be specific. I didnt chart my temps much during this cycle, but the second I started feeling tenderness... I started charting - and my temps were literally off of the charts. My friend convinced me to take a pregnancy test. Negative. I thought - ok, maybe its too early... so I waited a week. Negative.
By this point I was 99.9% certain that I was pregnant based on all of the kooky things happening with my body and all of the things I'd researched... so I went ahead and scheduled my annual visit to the gynecologist. I told them I was convinced and so they tested me. Again, negative. My doctor did the annual stuff - and then we talked about my infertility and how I was diagnosed (I started seeing a new doctor). She told me she wanted to do a blood/hormone workup on me to rule out any other factors that could be causing the infertility. I asked her if she'd do a blood pregnancy test while she was at it.. because I was SO sure. So she did.... and called me the next day completely baffled.... giving me the news that I was... indeed PREGNANT!!! The funniest part is how shocked she was after looking over my charts!
The pee tests kept coming back negative because it was entirely too early to tell. I knew that I was pregnant about 3 days after conception... which is crazy cool!!
SO a week after that I went for my first prenatal appointment (its still so crazy that I can use the word "prenatal.") - she tried an ultrasound but it was still pretty early. So I came back a week later (last Wednesday) which put me at 6 weeks pregnant... and there was the cutest little ball-o-baby I've ever seen :) The most exciting part is that she told me that she couldn't say 100% whether it was two babies or one. She couldn't quite tell based on the ultrasound. She said the dark shadow in the middle of my ball-o-baby could either be (1) an odd shadow (2) a split between the babies. SO - I definitely do not have fraternal twins...which means that if there are two babies in there - they'll be identical!!!
We will go back in 2.5 weeks (when Im at 9 weeks) and listen for a heartbeat... and see if there is one baby ... or ... yikes... TWO!
God is so absolutely amazing and we still stand in awe of the miracle He was worked in our lives!! We have prayed for this for so long! There are more stories I could tell surrounding this event - but I'll wrap it up here. Our prayer for the last few months has been "God.. please intervene so that we don't have to make the choice/expense of a fertility doctor!" And HE HAS!! God is so amazingly faithful & we are beyond in awe of His grace in our lives. We have done absolutely nothing to deserve such a miracle, but are so grateful that He has chosen us to demonstrate His majesty!! We are still extremely early in our pregnancy and are aware that a lot can still happen, but we are trusting that God will see this thing through! So continue to pray us through the next 6 or so weeks! Great is His faithfulness.
DUE DATE: November 21st! (The day before Thanksgiving... which also happens to be my birthday!)
I know, I know - we can hardly believe it either!! For those of you who have been following my blog/know anything about me - you know that I simply do not ovulate. Ever.. or so we thought :) There are so many details wrapped up in this story - so I will try to condense it as much as humanly possible.
Rewind to 18yrs old. Diagnosed with PCOS.
Fast Forward to February last year - stopped taking birth control & started using the FAM method to chart my temperatures, track ovulation, etc... nothing. For 13 months. In fact, I had to start taking Provera to induce my cycles b/c they dont exist otherwise.
(Now this is the part that we havent yet made public) - Fast Forward to last summer. Steven and I decided to try two rounds of fertility drugs. After two rounds... nothing. Not even ovulation. It was at this point that my doctor told me that we would need to see a fertility specialist in order to conceive... so we decided to wait because we weren't really ready for that financial commitment.
About 6 weeks ago I got a nasty nasty upper respiratory infection that seemed to linger on forever and ever. A week afterwards I decided to go to the doctor & get things checked out. They put me on an antibiotic and gave me some pretty heavy-duty cough syrup (but no they didnt give me the narcotic kind). A few days later I started noticing some things happening to my body that I noticed while on Clomid (trust me, I'll save you the details.). Days after that - I started noticing even more weird things. Tenderness to be specific. I didnt chart my temps much during this cycle, but the second I started feeling tenderness... I started charting - and my temps were literally off of the charts. My friend convinced me to take a pregnancy test. Negative. I thought - ok, maybe its too early... so I waited a week. Negative.
By this point I was 99.9% certain that I was pregnant based on all of the kooky things happening with my body and all of the things I'd researched... so I went ahead and scheduled my annual visit to the gynecologist. I told them I was convinced and so they tested me. Again, negative. My doctor did the annual stuff - and then we talked about my infertility and how I was diagnosed (I started seeing a new doctor). She told me she wanted to do a blood/hormone workup on me to rule out any other factors that could be causing the infertility. I asked her if she'd do a blood pregnancy test while she was at it.. because I was SO sure. So she did.... and called me the next day completely baffled.... giving me the news that I was... indeed PREGNANT!!! The funniest part is how shocked she was after looking over my charts!
The pee tests kept coming back negative because it was entirely too early to tell. I knew that I was pregnant about 3 days after conception... which is crazy cool!!
SO a week after that I went for my first prenatal appointment (its still so crazy that I can use the word "prenatal.") - she tried an ultrasound but it was still pretty early. So I came back a week later (last Wednesday) which put me at 6 weeks pregnant... and there was the cutest little ball-o-baby I've ever seen :) The most exciting part is that she told me that she couldn't say 100% whether it was two babies or one. She couldn't quite tell based on the ultrasound. She said the dark shadow in the middle of my ball-o-baby could either be (1) an odd shadow (2) a split between the babies. SO - I definitely do not have fraternal twins...which means that if there are two babies in there - they'll be identical!!!
We will go back in 2.5 weeks (when Im at 9 weeks) and listen for a heartbeat... and see if there is one baby ... or ... yikes... TWO!
God is so absolutely amazing and we still stand in awe of the miracle He was worked in our lives!! We have prayed for this for so long! There are more stories I could tell surrounding this event - but I'll wrap it up here. Our prayer for the last few months has been "God.. please intervene so that we don't have to make the choice/expense of a fertility doctor!" And HE HAS!! God is so amazingly faithful & we are beyond in awe of His grace in our lives. We have done absolutely nothing to deserve such a miracle, but are so grateful that He has chosen us to demonstrate His majesty!! We are still extremely early in our pregnancy and are aware that a lot can still happen, but we are trusting that God will see this thing through! So continue to pray us through the next 6 or so weeks! Great is His faithfulness.
DUE DATE: November 21st! (The day before Thanksgiving... which also happens to be my birthday!)
Oh Ashley, I couldn't be more happy for you all! I know you will be a terrific mommy! I know you have wanted this for so very long. What a blessing to be having a baby (maybe even 2!). That would be so much fun! Believe me! Now you have to update me as much as I updated you! I will be sure to make you feel just as good as you made me feel when I posted belly pics. You are awesome, and I am so glad for you all! I will be praying for you! God is in control! He's gone ahead of this and knows the outcome! Bless you!
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