Exciting SHOCKING News...

A little over a month ago, our family received Exciting, SHOCKING news...I'm pregnant!!! Some of you may know "our story" but I would like to share a little about it. About a year and a half after we were married, we were diagnosed with "Unexplained Infertility." After using stong fertility drugs we lost four babies (once with twins). Then we were also diagnosed with "Unexplained Recurrent Miscarriages." We flew from Iowa to Salt Lake City to see a Maternal/Fetal Specialist who specialized in Recurrent Miscarriage. He was hopeful that if we were ever to conceive again that he could help us. We decided to advance our medical treatment with Artificial Insemination and Invitro Fertilization which never produced a pregnancy. At that point we REALLY wanted to be parents so we applied with LDS Family Services to adopt. We waited almost two years for our adorable Jack. On his first birthday (and the soonest we could apply again), knowing the wait can be long, we decided to go ahead and start the process to adopt again. We were approved the beginning of May. We have decided to place our adoption profile on hold for a little while. Here are more of the exciting details.


The day I found out I was pregnant, I hadn't been feeling very well and was thinking I really needed to find a new OBGNY here in Utah. I was about 5 days late and while I was doing grocery shopping at Walmart I had the thought to "just take a test. It will put your mind at ease." Not that I thought I was. So I grabbed the cheapest test, came home and took it. It immediately showed "PREGNANT." I called Jeff, he came home. He just kept saying, "No way! No way!" I sent him to buy two more expensive tests. I took three test that night and they all said the same thing!
The next morning I called the same Maternal/Fetal Specialist we had seen 4 years ago and he immediately started me on medication. I am almost 9 weeks along and so far everything is going great. Our doctors says, "We aren't out of the woods, yet." I am monitored weekly and currently my chances of miscarriage are about 4%. I feel pretty gross from 7am-12pm but I am doing well. I feel like I have grown a TON this week...and no, I am not sticking it out. That is just me :) We felt it was time to share our excitement with everyone. We will continue to give weekly updates. The baby is due the middle of March.
If you know me at all, you know I like a clean house. The past couple weeks, Jack has had his reign and Jeff has been SOOO wonderful and helpful (foot rubs, house cleaning, cooking...it's amazing). I thank him for all his help :) So, there you have it. We were SHOCKED to find out about this baby, but we are very excited!!