"For This Child We Have Prayed...."

After what seemed like forever and the loss of two babies, I cannot even accurately describe how I am feeling now that there is a healthy baby on the way to join our family.  We kept this secret (from most people) for 12 weeks which seemed to go by so slowly!! Now we can finally say we have reached the second trimester and there is some sense of relief about this pregnancy.  For the first trimester I had a difficult time getting excited about the idea of a baby because of our past experiences and I didn't want to get my hopes up....again.  But after lots of prayers and what seemed like forever, Baby Lewis will hopefully be making his of her appearance at the beginning of December. 

Thanks to my sweet friend Summer, we were able to take pictures and make this pregnancy "facebook official" last weekend.  She did an amazing job as usual! We were able to put to use the tiny little Sperry's that I quickly had purchased during my very first pregnancy and that had been collecting dust in my closet, just waiting to be able to use them finally.  Here are some of the pictures Summer took for us. 

 

 

We have had wonderful doctors and nurses working with us! Lots of bloodwork which is showing that everything is moving along just perfectly and so far we have had four ultrasounds.  Here are a few pictures of how this little munchkin has been growing over the past 12 weeks.

This is Baby Lewis at 8 weeks...Not much to see but seeing that little heart flutter was enough for me!  Baby's heart rate was 154.

 

9 Weeks.  Baby's heart rate is 174.

 

 

After a little scare, we got this sweet picture at 11 weeks. Everything was just fine!!

 

 

Baby Lewis at 12 weeks.  Moving around all over the place during this ultrasound! We had never gotten to this point with the other pregnancies and could hardly believe what we were seeing during the ultrasound! So thankful for this growing baby!!

 

 

13 Weeks.  I won't be able to hide this belly anymore! ;-)

 

Thank you to everyone that has prayed for us so far and please keep the prayers coming! We are so blessed that God has answered our prayers this far.  I know He has had this perfect plan in store for us all along!  Next doctors appointment is in two weeks!

 

"God's timing is always perfect, never early and never late.  It just takes a little patience and a lot of faith."