Welcome to the New Blog Address

Just a quick post to welcome you to our new address. I had a check up with my doctor on Tuesday afternoon. Everything still looks good. I got to hear the baby's heartbeat again....nice and strong. I also thought you might enjoy one of the sonogram pictures taken at my first trimester screening (12 weeks).


I go back to the doctor in a few weeks for my 16 week checkup and I'll update again then.

New Blog Address

If you are receiving this, you have your links / bookmarks / RSS Feeds / etc set up correctly. You are now seeing the new blog in all it's newness. Please blame all design color choices on Jenny. She just asked me to set it up so it looked a little more like "her".

(Nathan)

New Blog Address

As promised I am officially changing the address of this blog. The new address is:

http://journeythroughparenthood.blogspot.com/

Please update your links. New posts at the new address coming later today.

E-mail subscriptions should still work (or will once Nathan updates it).

Unexpected Blessing

When Nathan and I decided to pursue adoption we did so because the doctors told us we had a VERY small chance of becoming pregnant naturally. They recommended procedures that involved lots of doctor manipulation. We did not have peace about going down that road so we chose adoption. However we saw no point in going back on birth control. We said if I ever got pregnant it would be because God wanted it to happen. We are excited to announce that God decided that a pregnancy IS in His plan for us! I am 14 weeks pregnant, due December 16. Everything looks great so far, the sonogram showed a good strong heart beat. I also had a first trimester screening for Downs Syndrome and Trisomy 18 and all those results came back normal.

After finding out I was pregnant one of the first things we talked about was how we felt this affected our adoption process. Nathan and I both feel that God has still placed a desire in our hearts to be adoptive parents. We believe that God is in control of timing and don’t even feel a need to put ourselves on hold or anything. We realize this means we have the possibility of having 2 babies very close together. =) We know God will work our all those details though. I’m going to call our agency this week and let them know what’s going on. Once the baby is born we plan to create an additional page to add to our scrapbook.

Here are some things you can pray for:

• Healthy pregnancy
• Healthy baby
• God’s perfect timing on our adoption
• Continue to pray for our birth mother

Since this blog will no longer be solely focused on adoption I think I’m going to change the blog’s web address. So be on the look out in the next few days for a post giving the new address. You will want to make sure you update all your bookmarks to the new address once it is in place. We are still on an adoption journey, and this pregnancy is now a part of that journey.