Everyone wants to know, "How'd you find out?"

  Finding out I was pregnant was surprising, exciting, and terrifying. In that order. I had just experienced a miscarriage 3 months earlier. I asked lots of mom-who-just-miscarried questions like, “Did I do something wrong?” and “Will I ever have a healthy pregnancy?”. I posed that question to a dear friend of mine who had also been through multiple miscarriages. Her unexpected response was, “Don’t worry! You’ll have a Christmas baby…and he/she will have a good set of lungs!”. I laughed and asked where she came up with that. She told me, “I dreamt it!”.
   Fast forward 2 months. April 9^th, 2014. I KNEW I was pregnant. I was just too scared to confirm it. I was at work that night and my lady co-worker friends knew what was up. They urged me to just buy a pregnancy test and take it in the bathroom quick and get it over with! So I did. I half expected it to be negative because well….I was just being negative. But surprise! It was positive! I was pregnant. My first reaction was laughter… and then gratitude that no one else was in the bathroom to hear me creepily giggling from the middle stall. I called my husband, who reacted almost emotionless…he was scared of losing this baby. Then it hit me. “Oh no..What if we lose this baby too?” My husband and I prayed HARD that night. Mostly in thanks to God for gifting us this baby, but also for peace and health for mama and baby.

Just before I went to bed I made sure to give credit where credit was due.


She called it!
Christmas baby. Due December 16^th 2014.