(decided I'd let #14 just speak for itself)
Today we will celebrate Alex's 12th birthday. What fun today will hold!
Alex was due on Christmas day - so you do the math, he was just a little early. I had a fabulous doctor who trusted his "gut instinct" instead of science and kept me in the hospital for observation. Things quickly changed (my placenta had begun to rupture) and if we had gone home (20+ minutes away) we may never have held Alex. He was then born via emergency c-section and taken immediately to NICU where he spent two weeks.
His first year of life was filled with visits to emergency rooms (where even one nurse got to know us by name) and lots of visits to specialists, but today he is a healthy, growing boy who you would have never imagined came home from the hospital weighing less than 4 pounds.
Thank you God for gifting us with Alex and for providing us the care that was needed to enjoy him here on earth.
Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving words of encouragement...I was thinking that we were the only ones having to make hard choices with our son! Thanks for the honesty and for the prayers and I will also be praying for you family as well!
ReplyDeleteI am excited to find your blog and to follow your journey to Spain. My husband and myself have also felt the Lord's calling to the mission field and feel we are being led to the Dominican Republic...it is such a God thing to be connected to another couple that is also on the journey of a life time!!