Miracle Monday

Beth over at A Mom's Life, hosts Miracle Monday where you can blog about a miracle you have seen, experienced or heard about. I enjoy reading stories people share - it is amazing. This week I decided to share one of my own.

At the end of November or early December last year, a friend of mine found out she was expecting her third child. Within a week she started getting violently sick (not your typical morning sickness) and some bleeding. She called her husband to come get her to take her to the hospital. When they got there the hospital did some tests and told her that she had miscarried the baby. She chose not to do the DNC at that time (mainly because she had heard me talk about my horrible experience with a DNC and it scared her) so she decided to let her body take care of it.

That following Monday (which was 2 days after the ER visit) she decided to schedule an appointment with her regular doctor and do a DNC. At the doctor's office they did some more tests and said they were not 100% convinced she had miscarried. So they scheduled her to return in a couple of days. They did an ultra sound and more tests. Still, they could not determine 100% that she was miscarrying. A few more days go by and she has more spotting. Back to the doctor they go, he says he is now more sure than before (but still not 100%) that she was losing this baby. He asked her if she wanted to do the DNC now or wait until her body "disposed" of it naturally. She opted to wait it out, again based on my horrific stories of the DNC I had after delivering our still born baby.

She told me at this point, that she didn't necessarily feel pregnant, but wasn't confident that she was losing the baby either. I mean, how could she be when the doctor wasn't sure what was happening either? She didn't like his term "dispose of" and that alone made her weep.

About 4 weeks after finding out she was pregnant, she sat and waited and waited for the baby to show itself, one way or another. She asked friends and family to pray for her. She went back to the doctor, at the doctor's request, who did another urine test, a blood test and ultimately an ultra sound too... guess what?

He found a heartbeat. This baby was going to survive after all!! Of course my friend was thrilled and the doctor was in awe.

My friend just delivered her third child last week. A beautiful, healthy baby girl. The doctor still can not explain what was happening in the beginning for those 4 long and painful weeks, but she told him "I don't need an explanation. My God is good and that's all I need!"

God is so awesome!