Wednesday, February 11, 2009

round 4

There was no sad phone call this time. No tears, no confusion, no depression, no hopelessness. Just joy. Joy and joyousness.

And relief. A couple ginormous sighs of relief.

Through a series of fertility tests, a diagnosis (something called "MTHFR"), pills and injections, and a whole lot of prayer from a large handful of prayer-warriors, Kari is now 12 weeks pregnant. This marks the 4th time she's been pregnant over the last 12 months and the farthest along she has been out of the 4. Whew!!! The MTHFR diagnosis revealed a serious problem (her uterus was not metabolizing folic acid) with a simple fix (injections, and a whole lot of folic acid). And so far it looks like it might be working.

While we certainly aren't closing our eyes to the immense fragility of a pregnancy throughout the whole 40-week period (see Tony and Charity's recent heartbreak), we have high high hopes and expectations that this one is going to last. And our doctors haven't been shy about expressing their excitement that we've gotten this far. That certainly helps.

We will continue to take things a week at a time. Kari has another heartbeat appointment next week, and probably a couple more after that. But we're pumped. Enough to not be able to keep it a secret any longer.

We'll keep the blogs updated.

9 comments:

Ben and Kristi Graves said...

:) so happy for you guys. thanks for letting us in on your exciting news! definitely life is fragile - i think that's something we've all been seeing first hand these last few weeks, so praying in japan for a healthy baby!

fentastic said...

prayin' with you of course.

there's gotta be a considerate joke for MTHFR in there somewhere...

Joel said...

Oh there has been many, but I think my grandpa might read this blog, so...

Jason, Angie and Brady said...

Congratulations and praise the Lord!!! Yeehaw!

Mimi/Mom/Christy said...

Oils of blessing precious family!

Mark said...

transitional period, huh?

Linda said...

I just read Kari's blog and I wanted to pop over and tell you congratulations too! I'm so excited for you guys!
Love and prayers,
Linda

Charissa said...

... this brought tears to my eyes. I am so thrilled for you and Kari and am definitely praying for a healthy pregnancy! :)

love to you both...

Janice said...

Very, very good to hear your updates. We will not stop praying, and we're very, very excited along with you!!