I'm Pregnant!

In May of 2008, Stephen and I decided I would stop my birth control. We had been married for a year and a half and felt that whenever the Lord chose to bless us with a child, He would. We did not "try" for a baby, we just felt led to trust the Lord and His timing.

It's a little under two years later and no baby. We were not discouraged but didn't quite understand.

In January of 2010 we were living in Dumas, Texas and found out that Stephen was going to be transferred to Midland, Texas. He had to be there within a week so I packed up our apartment and finished things there. He and his brother, Oscar, came back home on February 19th and we packed up the moving truck. That night I had a dream that forever changed our lives. In my dream, I was looking in the mirror and telling myself that I was pregnant. I woke up and knew that we would be meeting our precious baby in a few months. I was very careful to not lift anything heavy and took it very easy during the move, just in case. After Oscar left, we bought a pregnancy test and I took it the next morning. I was not surprised that it was positive! No need to take another one. I knew.

I walked out of the bathroom and into our bedroom where Stephen was still asleep and said "I'm pregnant". He jumped out of bed and embraced me. We cried together out of happiness and sheer terror that the Lord would trust us to raise one of His children.

We called our parents. Socorro said "Finally!" Robert said "I'm gonna be a granddaddy!" and Kay said "Hot Dog!" The thought then hit me that my parents would be coming home for his birth and I got teary once again.

I had a fairly easy pregnancy. We were blessed with an amazing doctor. I could not have asked for a better experience. I had some rough days and realized that it's much easier to throw up when sitting on the side of the bathtub instead of sitting on my knees on the floor.

Thankfully, my only complication was Gestational Diabetes. I was able to control it with diet so it was no big deal.

When the sonographer told us it was a boy, Stephen jumped out of his chair, raised his hands in victory and cried "YES!" (He wasn't the least bit excited-Ha!) We both had a pretty strong feeling it was a boy so we weren't really surprised.

Austin measured consistently big so when my doctor asked if I wanted to be induced, we decided to schedule it for my due date of October 14th. Mom and Dad were flying in on the 10th so we hoped he would hold on until then. That sweet boy did exactly as we asked and on October 14th at 4:00am we checked into the hospital.