New Life...It's So Beautiful

What do you say about a child you wondered about, one that you never thought was going to be. Words cannot explain what it has been like over the last two years wanting another baby, the heart ache that goes with a loss, and the joy that comes with a simple sign on a stick. This journey has brought us through an amazing roller coaster of emotions and physical challenges... but in the end, we received an amazing miracle, our son.

We knew that he would arrive near his sisters birthday, but his birth story is one that I didn't see happening to us. Our original due date was August 8th, but because of a number of complications that were a possibility along with having a previous c-section we were scheduled to have him about a week earlier. He however had other plans. Early in the morning on the 28th of July I wasn't sleeping as well as I had been,which wasn't all that great to begin with. Around 3:15am I woke up to an uncomfortable feeling, but I chalked it up to being 9 months pregnant and feeling exhausted so I fell back asleep. I woke up again around 4:20am to something I heard in my sleep but also felt, it was my water breaking! This all on Bel's 4th birthday! I woke DH up about a minute later when I was sure what had happened, he quickly got ready and we woke Bel up and started dialing the phone. This was all happening a week earlier than anticipated so our plans for who would have her during delivery and who would be at the hospital were all not going as planed. I got a hold of my parents and they met us at the hospital about 45 min. after my water broke. In the mean time I called our clinic who got a hold of our Dr., she called me back and met us at the hospital. Less than an hour and a half after my water broke we were in the OR waiting for our son to arrive. He was born at 6:31am, July 28th weighing in at 8lbs 6oz. and he was 20". Only 2 weeks early, 1 week earlier than planned, and sharing a birthday with his big sister... which runs in the family as DH was born on his oldest brother's birthday also.

The rest is standard, we stayed in the hospital for 3 days, came home and have now begun our lives as a family of 4... or 5 if you ask Bel because you cannot forget about the dog :-) We are feeling truly blessed by all events. About a month ago after a standard appt., one that covered all the complications that were being anticipated, after being told about the who the 2nd surgeon would be, and how fast they would have to work we stayed in the room for a couple of minutes to talk, just DH and I. We handed our fears, our anticipation and anxieties over to God, because without him, we wouldn't have been expecting at all. All complications were avoided, our Dr. delivered our son, and we are all happy and healthy.