Life is about to Change!

This post was written 4/30/14....

If you didn't already know we moved to Indiana in May for Drew to attend Purdue for graduate school.

We found out on Sunday, April 27th that we were pregnant! After a weekend of feeling sick due to allergies and stressed from school this was a wonderful surprise to end Sunday evening!

The first one was really faint, so this was test #2 and I also took a 3rd one just to be sure, and a 4th one and one at the doctor's office ;)

We had gone down to PA for the weekend, so that Drew could be a part of Dr. Payn's retirement concert and surprise farewell party.  After a dreary drive down in the rain, where I tried to no avail to do homework. We arrived at Dan and Alana's for supper and stayed up till almost 1:00am chatting! Needless to say we were all exhausted at church the next morning (but it was worth it:).  My pregnancy suspicions grew throughout the day as I was nauseous during the church service, and started to tear up during the farewell luncheon (which is strange because I barely knew Dr. Payn).  In between the luncheon and concert rehearsal we drove to the store and picked up two tests.  I wasn't sure if I should take one, but I have never been good at waiting, so I decided what the heck. And well there in Rooke Chapel we learned we were expecting!  That is after Drew convinced me that my eyes were not playing tricks on me and that the second faint pink line was actually there.

We are very excited and nervous for all the changes that will be happening in our lives as we live in a new state and town, Drew has started grad school and we are preparing for this new little life to enter our home.  Through all of this we know God will be by our side and guiding our steps.  

It was so early and the window of risk was not gone, but we wanted to tell family and friends in person, so in the next couple of weeks we did spread the news to a few people.


And now an update from this week.....

On Monday we got our first confirmation that all is going well! After some phone tag with the doctor and trying to figure out state health (woo the joys of being broke grad students...) we finally were able to make an appointment to visit the doctor for our first prenatal check-up.  The staff were wonderful and made us feel very comfortable through the endless parade of medical history questions, etc., etc.  And then after explaining how it was still early and we might not hear the heartbeat today the midwife found the little thing's heartbeat right away it was 160 and beating away happily.

I wasn't sure what to expect when hearing the heartbeat people kept telling me it was going to be amazing, but it was so odd it wasn't like anything I had ever heard before and my emotions were quite mixed.  I think if the midwife hadn't told us that is what we were listening to I would never have been able to guess.  The past few weeks have been an interesting time for me. I have been wrestling with what motherhood will look like for me.  It is still a time of discernment and thank God for giving us all a 9 month adjustment period :) So far I have learned that it turns out I am not a very sentimental person, I miss serving in a ministry, and I have a lot to think about as I finish up my degree this summer and what that means for me this upcoming Fall as far as work goes.  However, at the end of the day I am so relieved that all is going well with the little one's development and we will continue to pray for a healthy baby!

Much love! Oh and we are definitely willing to take any baby related hand-me-downs (wink, wink). We do want to find out what we are having, so hopefully sometime in August we will have an ultrasound for that!

12 weeks. The dress makes me look a little bigger then I actually am, haha.