MIRACLE #2 is on the way

Miracle #2 is on the way. We are PREGNANT due in AUGUST. For us getting pregnant has been quite the challenge and we feel so blessed to have a new little miracle joining our family.






The Lord has truly provided Miracle after Miracle to make this happen in our life. Here's our story:


To begin, when Grant was 4 months old I kept having this feeling that we needed to start trying for another baby. After over coming the idea that I was crazy, I told Matt my feelings. I am so thankful for a wonderful husband who is so supportive to my inspiration and after a couple weird looks and a few jokes about how we just had a baby he was on board.


A couple things needed to happen for us to start trying to have another baby. For one I needed to stop nursing so I could go on fertility pills, and second I needed to find a Dr. that would prescribe me the pills.


Well I wasn't sure exactly how to stop nursing because at this point Grant would have nothing to do with a bottle, formula, or solid food. He was only nursing!! So we prayed and told the Lord that we were willing but we needed help to make this happen.


Well never under estimate the Lord because two months later, Totally out of the blue, Grant woke up and would have nothing to do with nursing. He was barely starting to eat oatmeal and still would have nothing to do with formula or a bottle. I thought for sure he was sick. After a visit to the Dr. finding out he was perfectly healthy, I knew that this must be the Lord's way of doing his part. Truly a MIRACLE. Well Grant hardly ate for a day and after many sippy cups my mom got him to drink out of one. So I pumped and and within two weeks he was drinking formula from a sippy cup. Just to make sure, I tried to nurse a couple of times and he would have nothing to do with it.


So within a few weeks I had an appointment with a Dr. who thought I was crazy when he found out I had a 7 month old and wanted to get pregnant. But, he was willing and gave me the prescriptions that I used when I got pregnant with Grant.


After 3 months of trying Femara a couple different ways. I still did not ovulate. We decided to add Metformin and after another couple of months still no ovulation. So we made a phone call to my Dr. in SLC who informed me that if those pills aren't working then he had no idea how I got pregnant with Grant. (He definitely was a MIRACLE) and the next option was to do shots, but I needed to go to a Reproductive Endocrinologist out here.


Shots would cost anywhere from $1500-$2000 a cycle/month. So here we are in absolute awe, we have no insurance that would cover this, no idea how we got pregnant with Grant, and no idea how we could afford shots. But yet still I felt this urge that we needed to have another baby. So I made an appointment with a Reproductive Endocrinologist here. We fasted and prayed so hard that everything would work out somehow.


Well another Miracle happened!! Matt recieved a couple unexpected scholarships. The financial secretary just happened to work some magic out of the blue one day and got us more loans without any hassle. So it looked like we had a small cushion of money to go ahead and meet with the Dr. and do what was necessary.




The reproductive endocrinologist here, recommended another pill called Avandia that he had alot of success with. I will testify that after the trial of your faith come the blessings. We thought for sure there was no other way except shots. But just when you think there is no way, He totally provides a way. We tried Avandia and Femara, I ovulated and got PREGNANT.




The excitement of being pregnant only lasted a short period of time. We were told it was an ECTOPIC PREGNANCY and I was bleeding internally. Although I didn't see the MIRACLE at the time I can now look back and see how the Lord helped us through this trial. I was very blessed to have a Dr. that monitored me very close. We found out it was ectopic before I was in any pain. I didn't have to have surgery. I had what was similar to a D&C to make sure it was ectopic followed by a biopsy and two shots in the butt of methotrexate.



I was absolutely devastated. 7 MONTHS OF FERTILITY PILLS, we finally get PREGNANT and then to find out it was an ECTOPIC PREGNANCY. I couldn't believe it. I spent a couple of days just sobbing. I am so grateful for such an amazing strong husband. I know that it was hard on him, but he was so strong and such a great support for me. I'm so grateful for him.





I remember I was so down and sad so I prayed and told Heavenly Father that I needed help to be ok with this, I wanted to be a happy mom and wife. I had the most amazing peaceful feeling come over me that overcame the disappointment and sadness. After days of feeling so down, I finally felt at peace, felt God's love for me, and was able to move forward.



After a month of healing the internal bleed was gone! Thanks to another MIRACLE my hysterosalpingogram was clean and my body showed NO EFFECTS of the ectopic pregnancy.




So after convincing the Dr. that I was fine and ready to start trying again he finally agreed. However, he was worried the Femara might have caused the ectopic pregnancy and suggested we try an experiment of just the Avandia. My first thought was WHAT? yah right I finally ovulate and now you want me to try something totally different than what worked. But, Matt and I talked and we realized that we didn't want to have any regrets if we were to have another ectopic pregnancy.



So we tried just the Avandia, which did not work, followed by Femara shortly after. Which started to work, but somehow with trying the experiment it messed up my body. I wasn't releasing the egg. Within a day I had an HCG shot and ovulated.



SOON TO FIND OUT WE WERE PREGNANT!!!! I feel so grateful for this pregnancy and for a healthy 14 weeks!! I know that the Lord loves me. Although it's been a hard year. I feel like he has placed the path that he has wanted us to go down, right in front of us and helped us the whole way. We just hope and pray that everything continues to go okay with the pregnancy, and hopefully come the end of August, we'll have a new little Miracle in our life!