Back from my blogging break…

After four months on our healing cleanse I started getting a regular period, and had three regular cycles in a row. I felt really hopeful, but after misreading a positive pregnancy test right before Christmas, we realized that we weren’t doing ourselves any favors sitting around waiting for the impossible to happen. We started discussing other options for adding to our family, and decided that foster care was the best fit for our family. We took the first step in the foster care approval process just before the New Year.

Then the miraculous, the impossible, the last thing we expected, but the most hoped for thing, happened. A faint line. A very very very faint line. So faint I was sure it was my imagination. It had to be an evaporation line. We had been back to see the fertility specialist who operated on my husband and the results were dismal. No change. So even though I was having a normal period, my husband’s low sperm count and mobility meant the chances of conceiving were next to nil.

I waited a couple hours and peed on another stick. That faint line was a tiny bit darker. Still in denial, I called my doctor’s office. My regular doctor was out, so I saw his fill in. She confirmed it. Positive! Pregnant!

I came home and just about died, the minutes until my husband’s clients would be gone ticked by so slowly it felt like time had stopped. And then he was done. And I told him. And then our son was home from school. And we told him. The first words out of our 6 year old’s mouth was “can I watch the baby come out of your body, mom?” A child after my own heart!

The joy in our home when I shared the news was indescribably amazing. Miracles don’t happen often in one’s lifetime, and here I am getting my second baby miracle. I shouldn’t have been able to get pregnant with my first son. I had only had three cycles in a full year, and they told me I don’t ever ovulate. But I defied the odds and had a miracle baby.

And now we’ve defied the odds again, and I’m carrying a sibling for my son. Unbelievable.

Here’s our “official” pregnancy announcement, with my mad photo editing skills. Not. But we thought it was cute.

This “bun” will be fully baked in September.

(PS If you want to make this costume for Halloween, here’s where I found the pic.)