Trying this out

So I decided (probably against my better judgement) to start a blog. I thought this would allow me to share some photos and memorable moments with my family and friends. I am going to need some advice from my other blogging friends on exactly how to make this page look the way I want.

I am now 32 weeks pregnant and growing. It has been a very exciting and long journey to get to this point. We tried for 7 years to conceive and despite going through infertility treatments we still were left with no child. In the process we decided to begin the foster to adopt route, and planned to foster in Jan 2009. In November, I decided to go to one other fertiltiy specialist just to see if we would get the same advice. If so then we would continue toward adoption. We found out, however, that I had a gene mutation preventing me from getting pregnant and staying pregnant. I was prescribed a lot of folic acid and a baby aspirin a day. In January, we would try another trial of treament. To our surprise, we never had to do any other treatment because I was pregnant. It was hard to be excited at first because I had already miscarried two times before. So we waited and prayed and now we are in the home stretch. Our little girl is due October 2nd. God has blessed us beyond our imaginations. Here are a few ultrasound and belly pics.

17 week ultrasound

32 weeks

28 weeks

22 weeks