Christian ladies TTC, we can encourage one another.

[No Doubt]

Glad there was a proper diagnosis. My mom has that and she says it's painful...I work with a lady who says the same. Sounds like you and hubbs are on your way for wonderful few days. Enjoy!

 

[Beanonorder]

Sounds like you have a great time planned Amanda! Glad you got a proper diagnosis for your foot and that surgery is not at all involved!

I'd like to ask for some prayers for the next couple of weeks. I am winding down at work for the summer holidays, hubby and I are packing up the apartment for our move in August and we are off to South Africa for two months on the 12th June. I'd just like to ask for safe travels, especially for my dd. I'm quite worried what two nine hour flights there and two on the way back are going to be like with a very active toddler!

 

[ByHisGrace08]

Hello Ladies,

Just wanted to give an update on Hanna Faith, the preemie that was born at 1 pound 9 ounces. She was 28 weeks when she was born and today at church we got an update (she is now 29 weeks 1 day). Hanna is breathing on her own and tolerating tube feedings of breast milk very well! Her parents got to start Kangaroo Care on Friday (4 days old) and each change a dirty diaper! While Hanna is doing well this is a tough time for them please continue to keep them in your prayers.

Amanda, I am so sorry to hear you are having a hard time. I also at times feel like I don't fit in anywhere but here. TTC with a sick DH is just so....different from anyone else. I will be keeping you in my prayers. Also my 6th wedding anniversary is June 7th....how cool!

Bean praying for safe travels, why SA?

Have a wonderful Memorial Day ladies!

Blessings,

~Sarah~

 

[Beanonorder]

Thanks Sarah. We are South African so going back to see family and friends. Also to give the grandparents some good time with their granddaughter.
And the 7th is also my parents anniversary! They're going for 34 years this year!

 

[No Doubt]

Praying for you bean!

BHG, wonderful update, thank you! Continued prayers!

 

[DBZ34]

Hi ladies!

My name is Ella and I'm a long time stalker of the thread, but I don't post much. But, I wanted to ask if you ladies would keep me in your prayers. I found out I was pregnant yesterday and while I'm ecstatic, I can't help but worry. I've had two m/c's in the past, the last one being 3 months ago, and I find myself very nervous about this pregnancy. I've been praying so hard the last few days, when I first started to suspect I was preggo. And though I'm finding peace through prayer, I also feel the need to ask for more prayer for my baby. So if you ladies wouldn't mind...please pray for me.

 

[No Doubt]

Hi DB! Congrats hun! I will keep you in my prayers. Lord may you give our sister peace of mind and peace in her heart, and may you be a protective hedge around the miracle you have blessed her womb with, in Your name, amen.

 

[sportysgirl]

Bean, I pray for you to have a safe journey.

DB prayers for you and your new pregnancy. I can totally understand you feel anxious. X x

 

[Jett55]

Prayers for a safe trip Bean.

Db I pray that God will give you peace that you will be able enjoy this pregnancy & He's keeping your little one safe

 

[Beanonorder]

Lifting you and your baby up in prayer DB x

 

[ByHisGrace08]

This was sent out by my church at 7:38pm today (May 26) this is the preemie you all have been praying for....


Please pray for Tim and Michelle's baby, Hanna. Her calcium level needs to come down.

A level of 14 is high; Hanna's is 21. It has the doctors puzzled because they have not seen a count this high in newborns.

Also her creatinine level (in kidneys) needs to come down.

This is an opportunity for God to receive the glory!





Thank you.

 

[DBZ34]

Thank you so much! Thank you!



And I will continue to keep Hanna in my prayers. She's a fighter!

 

[uwa_amanda]

Prayers are being lifted for baby Hanna!

 

[Godsjewel]

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.
Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21

When I was in college, I was very blessed to be a member of a dynamic choral group that travelled the nation sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. We’d rehearse and learn every note to perfection, load up on buses and planes and leave campus full of anticipation and a little bit of holy naiveté. On occasion, our director would ask different members to sing a solo while the choir took a much needed break. When he invited me to sing, I chose my favorite song. With all the conviction my 20 year old heart and soul could muster, I would take the platform and with mic in hand, belt out my favorite song, He is Able!

And I know when my eyes fail to see, He is Able!
Even though it seems impossible to me--He is able!
But if He chooses not to move in the way we’ve prayed He would,
I’m confident He’s working all together for my good!
I will stand behind His Word, for He is able!


I knew I could sing that song! I had lived it! How else would I have been able to score such high grades if God Himself had not been able to help me?

Then real life hit. A parent had to undergo an emergency heart by-pass operation as we nervously paced the waiting rooms. Was He able then? A friend died without warning and without the opportunities for good-byes. Was He able then? Lifelong plans for a house full of babies crumbled beneath the weight of an empty cradle. What about that? Was God still able even in the midst of infertility?

The answer, my friend, is a resounding, yes! God is able!

Surely you have dreamt about your future, and how you envision the family you are asking God for. Your dreams may have been crushed by impossible diagnoses or financial deficits. Perhaps the doctors haven’t been able to find why you cannot conceive, and you find that you are unable to imagine a life without a baby. If this is the reality of your life today, I ask you to find the God of Ephesians 3:20.

Ephesians 3:20 reveals God to us as the one who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think... Even your wildest imaginations fail to live up to the ability of God. Go ahead! Give it a shot! Imagine the most amazing, most unbelievable miracle your finite mind can create. God’s abilities surpass them all!

However, God sometimes works in ways we have yet to imagine. We only see our situation the way it is today, right now. We only see what is happening--or not happening--through the filter of human eyes. He is still able. We feel today’s pain, and today’s frustrations. He is still able. The doctors hand down another diagnosis. Another year turns on the calendar. He is still able. It’s hard to imagine that God is working all things in abilities so far beyond what my eyes can see. He is still able.

As I sit in my mid forties, the song has a much more profound meaning to me than it did as a college student. Why? Because when I was a 20 year old college girl, I knew the words to the song. As a 45 year old woman who has faced infertility, failed adoptions, multiple diagnoses and a pretty long laundry list of other difficult life situations, I know the God behind the words, and I know He really is able!

-BF

 

[phaedypants]

Hi Everyone;
Well, it's a couple days until I expect my AF...nothing unusual there! They have been coming like clockwork for 2 frustrating years.

However, my ob-gyn has prescribed me Clomid to begin using in my next cycle. Of course, I am a little worried, but mostly excited, because it is the first pro-active thing I have done in terms of fertility treatment. Its been 2 years of tests tests tests with no strategy, so I'm excited that we are trying SOMETHING.

I never thought I would take Clomid. I never thought I would even see an ob-gyn about pregnancy. I was so sure that I would trust in Gods natural timing, and in His outcomes. I thought I would reject medical intervention and go with a granny midwife and give birth in my living room while my husband played guitar.... Silly fantasies...not that there is anything wrong with them.

God works differently, I've learned. Trusting in Him means trusting ourselves to listen to the stillness in our own hearts in the center of all the noise and confusion. What do I really want? Do I want a hippy fantasy? No. I want a baby to grow in my womb. Everything else was just playing make-believe.

I trust God to be faithful to me in my longing. I trust Him to be there, even in the things that I didn't imagine.

 

[cupcakestoy]

I believe God leads us to people & Dr.'s who help us on this Journey. He gives them the knowledge & ability to help. I pray a little intervention is all you need to conceive your Miracle!!!

 

[No Doubt]

Good for you phaedy!

 

[eyemom]

Ladies, if you wouldn't mind saying a prayer for some friends of ours. It's my husband's best friend since childhood and his wife. They are due about 2 weeks before me (so about 19 and a half weeks), but she went to the hospital today fearing her water broke. Turns out they did find some amniotic fluid. I'm not sure what they've done. I know she was given some medication, but I wondered if they'd do a cerclage in this situation or ??? Anyway, they are actually wanting to send her home on Monday, I'd assume on some form of bed rest. I don't know anything else right now. Please pray that baby can stay in AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. Right now they're just saying until at least 24 weeks, but obviously the longer the better. They also have a 3 yo son. Thanks so much for your prayers.

 

[Beanonorder]

Shame that is so scary to deal with! Keeping them in my prayers!

 

[HisGrace]

Praying for your friend, eyemom.