Many Miracles

As we approach the celebration of the birth of our second born baby it dawned on me that I don't think I ever posted about our infertility "problem" and what miracles all of my children are (besides the obvious of course :) A couple of years after hubby and I were married we decided we should have kids. I will be honest, I wasn't one of those that wanted to get married and have babies right away. So one day we decided it was time to start "trying." After about a year or so of trying and no pregnancy we started to get a little concerned. I couldn't believe there would be a problem. My mom knew a specialist down south so I decided to set up an appointment with him. After meeting with him for about an hour he basically told me that if I wanted to get pregnant we would have to harvest my than 13 year old sister's eggs and fertilize them with hubby's sperm. OK - that thought totally grossed me out. It might be fine for some but it wasn't what we wanted. I was pretty certain if I did that and I got pregnant I would always see my sister and my hubby in my baby. Right or wrong that is how I felt. And to be honest, it wasn't something I wanted to put my sister through. She would have done anything for me! I still remember it was Mother's Day weekend. I was devastated. I cried the entire time and was so sad. As they celebrated Mother's Day at church, I just remember sitting there thinking "There will never be anyone to celebrate me as a mother." I came back home and hubby and I decided we wouldn't do anything extreme to have children. If it was meant to be it would happen. If not, we would buy a boat - ha, ha!!! My midwife put me on some hormones that she thought might help but after a couple of months of those I stopped taking them. Well, during that time our neighbor had put his boat up for sale. Hubby had had his eye on it for quite some time and had always said if the guy was willing to sell it he would buy it. A couple of days before hubby was going to approach our neighbor I peed on a stick and lo and behold I was pregnant. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. I remember what I was wearing, were daddy was when I told him and my immediate need to call the doctor to confirm. I just couldn't believe it!! Since then it has never been a problem. Nature Girl was barely one when we started trying again just because we thought it would take awhile. Little Mama was born nine (ten)months later. Just goes to show that every pregnancy is truly a miracle from God. And by the way, hubby still doesn't have a boat. . .