Well..SURPRISE! Aaron may not be the only little boy in our family! We are pregnant! Yes..I said PREGNANT! Shocked??? SO ARE WE!!
While on a Spiritual Retreat in 2001, God birthed a desire in our hearts for another baby. At the time, my tubes were tied and we were not sure how God was going to make this happen. In 2005, he provided a way to have a tubal reversal. I had my Tubal Reveral 11/24/2005. After a year of trying to conceive with no success, we had an HSG to check to see if the tubal reversal was successful. That testshowed both tubes wide open. We tried a fertility medicine called clomid with my GYN for 3 months and then moved on to an Infertility specialist. Dr Blohm (the Specialist) found that my husbands sperm count was extremely low and I had late ovulations which made conceiving IMPOSSIBLE. We tried 3 IUI's (Intrauterine inseminations) with clomid and then moved on to the final option which was In Vitro Fertilization. After one failed Ivf, miscarriage on our 2nd (thawed) cycle, our infertility specialist said there was no hope and urged us to quit trying given our "advanced age" and bleak odds. We talked him into doing one more round of IVF. He finally said "ok" but assured us one more and that was it. He was shocked when we got Marleigh from that final IVF in 2007!!
When I left the hospital after giving birth to her in 2008, the discharging dr said that there was no need for birth control. I saw another dr in the group at my 6 wk appt that said the same and yet another dr in the group at my yearly exam that said no need for bc given my age and infertility history. 4 yrs later and surprise!!! I thought I was beginning menopause because I turned 40 this year. We did nothing different this month and were not trying at all to get pregnant(haven't tried since having Marleigh 4 years ago). God is amazing. So for you who are believing for what looks impossible, hold on!!!!!! God is faithful and what looks impossible to man is very much possible to God!!!
So, that being said, our hearts are still set to adopt Aaron. God knew that this baby was going to be a part of our story when he put Aaron in our hearts to adopt and as surprised as we are...this certainly has not surprised God! Gonna have my hands full? yes probably so...but God's grace is sufficient!!
This is a blog dedicated to sharing the journey that we are on to adopting our son Aaron from Haiti. It is our hope that it will be a way to share the journey with those who love and support us, encourage those who may be on a similar journey of adoption, inspire those who just need to see that God does do the impossible, and above all else, GLORIFY our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the reason that we are what we are and that we do what we do.