At my doula training I watched so many wonderful birth videos. The women were heroic, beautiful, and when the baby was born...well there are no words to describe. Our instructor told us all "you will probably leave this weekend wanting another baby..." Not only was she right but to my surprise I was already PREGNANT! Yes, it's true! I have so much peace and joy it's overwhelming (in a good way). So I know you'll want to know the story so here it goes:
Phil and I have been doing Natural Family Planning for a few months now. My charts, to put it lightly, are about the complete opposite of the 'ideal' chart. My normal temperatures are from about 96.8-97.9. In the past few weeks they have ranged anywhere from 97.5 up to 98.4. A couple weeks ago I took a test like this: Pregnancy Test it had a VERY faint second line. So my wonderful man went out and bought me one of these: Digital Test It read "Not Pregnant" which made me feel confused about my temperatures but I accepted it and told God "I trust Your timing." See God has walked me through some good and stretching stuff these past couple months. I came to the place of peace awhile before finding out I was pregnant today. Not the whole "fake it" peace that one can put on around others but a deep peace that I knew more babies were coming and even if they didn't come I knew that He was enough. I feel like there are deeper and deeper layers of knowing that. So yes, I felt peace about the timing and full of joyful anticipation.
So this weekend at the doula training I was having some back pain. I kept shifting from side to side thinking "this is weird...." Then I thought well I'm rarely on my butt this much so maybe it's from that. Little did I know that God had planned all of this in His perfect way. So we got home, spent yesterday hanging out, Phil went hunting in the evening and after check the weather report for the morning he planned on staying home due to storms and 50mph winds. I prayed God would change the weather but alas He had even better plans!
I woke up at 7am this morning (10/26) to take my temperature...98.4....98.4? We slept for a couple more hours and then got up. I decided to take a pregnancy test starting with the non-digital one, faint second line (though clearer that the one from a couple weeks before). I showed Phil (who was in the middle of a diaper change) and we agreed I should take the digital one. So I opened it, and held it in the cup for 5 seconds. Phil and Zem walked in, we were all making faces in the mirror. The test normally takes awhile so I was still playing with Zem and all the sudden Phil said something with joy (he had already looked down) and sure enough "pregnant" had come onto the screen. Such joy filled my heart. I cried I was so excited. We laughed, hugged, cried, and told Zemirah that she was a big sister. We got Zem a snack then put on worship music and prayed and thanked the Lord. There was such peace in our hearts. It was such a beautifully familiar feeling, but different too.
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| I love digital tests...pretty straight forward eh? |
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| This is tradition...notice the 'round 2' |
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| The beautiful big sister and Mama |
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| Had to add this one too....so much joy! |
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| Big brother in heaven |
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| I don't even ask....it's tradition |
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| My husband is good lookin' |
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| Daddy and Mama (x2) |
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| Trying to get Zem to look at the camera... |
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| The Britton's 4 |
We went to
Care Clinic to confirm the pregnancy (which worked out perfectly with Phil already being off work). We went in and it all felt so exciting. Our little beauty ate some of her animal crackers and kept Daddy busy by exploring the whole first floor. Mama headed off to pee in a cup. The nurse came back and told us that indeed we are pregnant! (Side note: I will sometimes say "I" and other times "we" truly my husband did contribute to this little bundle of wonder and he goes through all of the pregnancy/labor/birth/raising etc. with me...so yes, I or we is what it shall be). After the results we went to the Family Resource Closet to get our new miracle a blanket. We decided on this one:
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| Mama and our little acorn's blanket (Daddy decided on the name acorn) |
For all of you with the other questions:
I would guess that I'm 4/5 weeks along but we're not totally sure yet. There were large gaps between my periods. I'd guess the baby would be due late June/early July. My first ultrasound at the Care Clinic is scheduled for Dec 1st.
We aren't sure if we'll find out the sex of our little acorn (leaning towards no) but more importantly, we are at peace with the sex. Babe is a blessing from God that He has planned to give to us since before the beginning of time. We are just thrilled to be pregnant!
Prayer Requests: Please pray for health for baby and Mama, wisdom in picking the care person/setting of the birth, prayer for our living situation (we're hoping to get something larger) so basically to buy or to keep renting, and most of all tell Him how wonderful He is!
Peace to your home,
Mama B.
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