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June 14, 2013

BOY & GIRL!

We are 17 weeks today!  We are amazed every day at how fortunate we are.  I get up every morning and thank God for our babies and for Nicole.

God has blessed us in abundance.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. Ephesians 3: 20

He allowed us to find Nicole.  We truly could not have picked a better person.  God orchestrated this perfectly.

Then, not only did he allow us to finally become pregnant, but pregnant with TWO babies.

And, beyond our wildest dreams, a BOY and a GIRL!

We couldn’t have even dreamed of asking for this.  I wanted one healthy baby.  I would never have dared ask for two and never would have imagined one of each sex.

And, finally, we found such a wonderful doctor, which is NO easy task. I suspect a little divine intervention there as well because while we are thankful for this pregnancy, it’s nerve-wracking for someone who has experienced five miscarriages.  It was really scary at first and it was really comforting to me to find a doctor we really like and respect and one who happily gave us his cell phone number and said for us to call any time.  What?!?!

I feel so sad for my friends that are still struggling.  I want this for them so bad.  I won’t be the person to say, “Oh, you’re time is coming” or something like that.  I don’t know that.  All I know is that we felt so hopeless at times and faced disappointment after disappointment and loss after loss for many years.  It was impossible to imagine being on the other side and now that things are going well, it’s still hard to believe.  It’s just bizarre how we’ve been at this for so long, like we were spinning around on some crazy infertility merry-go-round and then one seemingly random day, we were just plucked off it and placed on solid ground.  A snap of the fingers (by Almighty God, no less) and things drastically changed. We didn’t see it coming.  I just hope my friends experience this 180, too.

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8 Comments

  • Reply Heather June 15, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    Congratulations! A pigeon pair! You’re all set now.

  • Reply Jodi June 17, 2013 at 12:05 am

    Awesome!! Having a boy and a girl is the best!

  • Reply Ann June 17, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    How exciting!!!

  • Reply Ambyr Aamodt Kirkpatrick June 17, 2013 at 7:37 pm

    That is so amazing! Congratulations. 🙂

  • Reply Samantha June 17, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    Congratulations! My boy/girl ivf twins are just over 7 months. It is the most amazing experience ever.

  • Reply Jessica Tennant June 19, 2013 at 11:44 am

    Congratulations! I am so happy for you–you are so deserving of all things wonderful in this amazing experience.

  • Reply Danielle June 30, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    So happy for you and your husband! I use to follow you on the Recurrent Loss board and I remember what a road this has been for you. God is pretty amazing!! Boy/girl twins! How amazing! We got more than we could have asked for too: we are in the final stages of adopting our 4 year old daughter, two year old son, and 9 month old baby son from foster care. They are all siblings..and we may have another new baby joining us in the next couple of months, the children’s bio mom is expecting again. So nice to follow your story and be able to see the happiness!!!

  • Reply Connie July 12, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    All I have to say to this post is AMEN and Praise our Awesome God!!!!! Smiling through tears for you and your family!

    *******Now to Him who is ABLE to do exceedingly abundantly ABOVE all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. Ephesians 3: 20

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