I don't have cycles at all. I don't ovulate, produce eggs, or have periods. We can try for months and months and we have never been able to conceive on our own. Like we did with our first two daughters, we took two medicines to help me ovulate and have a period. Two medicines to have my body do what most women's bodies do every month. You can take the medicine for four months and then you have to wait six more months to take it again. After that, you are sent to a fertility specialist. We had two rounds of medicine. I went in for my routine blood work. The blood tests showed I didn't even ovulate "Not even close" were the nurse's words. The medicine had not worked. My numbers (hormone levels) were very low, meaning no egg production, etc. The nurse prescribed me another round of medicine. It's routine to take a pregnancy test before beginning the medicine. Chris was confident and unwavering, what a sweet husband I have. I was really sad and began feeling hopeless. For us, we would not pursue further treatments for infertility. Only a few close friends knew we were trying.
While this was going on our oldest daughter had been very sick for a few months so a group had come over to pray for her. A friend, who knew nothing of our journey, prayed over me...even though they were there praying for my daughter. She said to me that she had a dream that I was pregnant. Of course I cried and cried. Oh how I wanted to be pregnant. How I wanted her dream to be true.
5-7 days later.
I woke up early, took a pregnancy test and it was negative. I threw it in the trash and climbed back into bed crying. Later in the day, it had snowed a lot and our room was very bright. I was making the bed and felt the Holy Spirit say "Go look at the test." I actually argued with Him..."What, you want me to do what? No I can't. I don't want to see the negative line again. and that's really gross too." :) but I did anyways, when I brought it into the light, there it was, a positive double-pink lined test. We were pregnant! I was speechless. I came into the kitchen where Chris was and all I could do was hold it up to him. We laughed at how wrong the blood test was...SO wrong! Our third beautiful daughter was born 9 months later.
I had so much fun texting my friend and saying "Your dream is a reality!" I had so much fun calling my doctor's office to schedule my first appointment because I was pregnant!
God is SO good! We are so grateful and blessed to have all of our girls. He is SO faithful!