Back in October 2010 our doctor told us that we had a condition that could possibly lead to infertility problems if we ever wanted to have children. Knowing that we were only a few months from wanting to try, he told us that he could run some tests and if that was the case, a surgery could be performed to potentiallyincrease fertility,but there was no guarantee it would work. He also saidthe condition would not otherwise affect us in a harmful way, and so we chose not tooperate at the time. In April 2011 we started trying to conceive. Month by month went by and the disappointment stung more each month that passed. At the beginning of August, we went back to the doctor to get tested for possible infertility. The diagnosis given was that there was a significantlylowerchance for us to get pregnant due to the condition. To put it in perspective, most healthy, fertile couples have a 25% chance of conceiving each cycle. Our chance of conceiving with the condition was 3% each cycle. These are NOT the statistics you want to hear when you are trying for a baby!The doctor recommended we have surgery to help correct the condition. Hearing this news seemed to be the tip of the iceberg of disappointment. As we assessed the situation in the natural, it looked like we were going to have to wait several months for a child; even with an operation, it could be November or December before we saw any improvement. The doctor scheduled our surgery for August 24. Only a couple of weeks before this, there was a message at Celebration about cultivating an expectant heart – How could we as a family posture our heart to say “Yes” to the things that the Lord has for us? He challenged us to raise our bar of expectation. In response to this, we began to open up to our closest friends about what was going on and started seeking wisdom and prayer, and believing that kids were a part of our destiny in God. We truly needed an intervention from the Lord; and we did notwant to keep this to ourselves, but to stand in faith with our community. We needed signs and scripture to stand on in belief that the Lord would give life. The word at Celebration about Gideon needing sign after sign spoke volumes, and we started to cling to the words spoken to us in the past. We recalled that in July, the Lord had given my husband a dream that we had a baby, and the infant baby was just laughing all the time. As we believed that to be enough, other signs started pouring in. A friend sent us a message saying, “while I was praying the other day my heart was filled with joy and peace for you...I felt like God gave me a little bit of information for you...that you will be pregnant and with a baby boy!” Another friend also had a dream about us conceiving. And still another friend prayed over me as well, saying that she felt like the Lord had already given me a baby in her belly! The prayers and words we received from these friends and others in this time ushered in a spirit of peace and celebration in what the Lord would inevitably do.
The morning of September 3rd we woke up to find out that we are pregnant! We had conceived a week before the surgery! The Lord had given us life when it did not feel possible in the natural! The verse that has been on our hearts is Psalm 113:9, “He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!” We are now 10 weeks along and expectant for a healthy pregnancy! We are so grateful for what the Lord has done.