The news I've been waiting for forever..

[M&M's Mommy]

We've been married for almost 8 years. That's 8 years of opening our hearts & home to the possibility of children & longing for the wonderful news that is here today. 8 years of hope & dream, of sadness and monthy disappoinment - yet, through it all, we held on to the belief that with God, nothing is impossible, and if He's willing, one day we will be parents. It is this faith that gave us inner peace & pulled us up every time we sank into sadness.

Because of the belief that God & only God is the ultimate creator of life, we refused to consider the invitro fertilization method that had been suggested to us many times in the past. Though we wanted to be pregnant more than anything else on earth, we acknowledge that life is a gift that is given according to God's will, not ours & that, we can ask for it as long as we wanted to, but can't demand God to give it to us when we want it.

We've endured lots of tests to determine the cause of our infertilities. The strangest thing was that all our tests came back normal. They could not find anything obviously "wrong" with us, except the fact that I did not ovulate on the exact date/time every month, so it was hard to track..

So, we used ovulation kits (tons of ovulation kits)... which I found very hard to tell - because it's based on the comparision between the intensity of the color of the test line & the control line, that for some reasons, always look about the same to me!

Finally, my doctor prescribed Clomids. I took it for 3 months without getting pregnant.. so we decided to skip a month to take a breather before going for another round. It is the month that I got pregnant! God really does have a different plan & timeline than we do, and a wonderful sense of humor to go with it!!

So, I ask for your continuous prayer, that I'll be having a normal, healthy pregnancy. Thanks!

PS: For the last two nights since we found out, hubby and I couldn't get an hour of sleep.. We can't stop smiling and imagining what it would be like - 9 months from now.. thought we decide not to share our good news with family & friends just yet, we could hardly contain our happiness. You guys are the first to know!