Catching up
We have had a wild and busy couple of months. The first thing is that I am 11 weeks pregnant. God has been amazing and wonderful and has blessed us with this sweet child. It is amazing and beautiful and we are so excited. In August we had three embryos implanted through embryo adoption. We had been researching all our options and around May this became a real option and we began to look into it. Between everything this summer we started the process. In August we had did the procedure and waited for results. We were pregnant.
For everyone who is not familiar with embryo adoption it is a really neat thing. It is where couples who have done in vitro fertilization and have used all the embryos they want to but have left over and they donate them. Then couples, like us, adopt the frozen embryos and have them implanted. It is adoption on the earliest level. In our situation it is a great option.
We were pregnant with twins but we lost one early. It was hard to, and still is. We will always have special place in our hearts for our baby. For me it was a real test to lean into the arms of Christ. I know that His plans are only for the best and we still have a very healthy little one. God has grown and is growing my daily. I have been really sick the last couple of weeks and it is a challenge for me to not be able to do much and to have to rely on Matt to what I cannot. I am hoping that as I get through the first trimester, and now that I am completely off of my additional hormones, things will settle down. It all is surreal and I have to remind myself that I am really carrying a baby. I have waited so long for this and I feel privileged. God is so good and He has showered me with His grace. I look forward to this journey that is ahead of us and we are all so excited.
I end this quick update with saying that God is good ALL the time. I know that life is full of choices and that each day holds these choices for us to make. It can be so easy to fall into the thought pattern that things are bad and wrong. Things are bad and wrong in the world and we all feel and live it. Through all we have gone through, and for me especially, I know that through all of this God's light shines brighter than all of it and He is full of love. He showers it down when all hope seems to be gone or when the darkness surrounds like a thick fog. I love that through that thickness His light bursts through and even if it remains dark we live in the comfort of His shining light. God has given me a gift through life and through death. I praise Him through the storm and through the harvest. Thank you for all the prayers and support. Love you!!!
For everyone who is not familiar with embryo adoption it is a really neat thing. It is where couples who have done in vitro fertilization and have used all the embryos they want to but have left over and they donate them. Then couples, like us, adopt the frozen embryos and have them implanted. It is adoption on the earliest level. In our situation it is a great option.
We were pregnant with twins but we lost one early. It was hard to, and still is. We will always have special place in our hearts for our baby. For me it was a real test to lean into the arms of Christ. I know that His plans are only for the best and we still have a very healthy little one. God has grown and is growing my daily. I have been really sick the last couple of weeks and it is a challenge for me to not be able to do much and to have to rely on Matt to what I cannot. I am hoping that as I get through the first trimester, and now that I am completely off of my additional hormones, things will settle down. It all is surreal and I have to remind myself that I am really carrying a baby. I have waited so long for this and I feel privileged. God is so good and He has showered me with His grace. I look forward to this journey that is ahead of us and we are all so excited.
I end this quick update with saying that God is good ALL the time. I know that life is full of choices and that each day holds these choices for us to make. It can be so easy to fall into the thought pattern that things are bad and wrong. Things are bad and wrong in the world and we all feel and live it. Through all we have gone through, and for me especially, I know that through all of this God's light shines brighter than all of it and He is full of love. He showers it down when all hope seems to be gone or when the darkness surrounds like a thick fog. I love that through that thickness His light bursts through and even if it remains dark we live in the comfort of His shining light. God has given me a gift through life and through death. I praise Him through the storm and through the harvest. Thank you for all the prayers and support. Love you!!!
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