The Power of Prayer

Life has been so busy this past year that I haven't updated my blog at all. We have been blessed to have a great year and lots of fun with our boys. We got a major surprise this summer when we found out we were expecting another sweet baby and even more surprised this fall when we found out that sweet baby was a baby girl! Words could not tell you how excited I was to find out we were having a girl (as proven by the enormous amounts of pink that have been brought into this house!)

I was debating about putting this out there publicly, but I'm getting so many emails daily from wonderfully sweet friends and family, that I thought it would be good to keep updates in one place instead of writing the same thing over and over again all day. And I woke up this morning thinking that the more people we have praying for our family, the better so I'm going ahead and putting the updates here on my blog for those that want to check updates.

Things were going well until our 20 week anatomy scan, where the ultrasound tech found the placenta located in the wrong place. We were sent to the hospital to meet with the high risk team there and I was diagnosed with placenta previa (fairly common placenta disorder) and placenta accreta (not so common).

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/placentaaccreta.html This is a pretty good source about it, but basically in my case, the placenta attached itself to my previous c section scar and at the time of my ultrasound was right on the border of breaking through the uterine wall. If it does break through, it can then attach itself to surrounding organs, which can be life threatening to the mother. At this time, we are waiting on an MRI to tell us exactly the severity and will make decisions about the delivery based on those results and the recommendations of the high risk team I am seeing. What we know right now is that the baby will be delivered prematurely (although it is still being determined exactly at what week, but most likely not past 34 weeks), and that I will have a full hysterectomy either at the time of the delivery, or if it's not safe at a later time after recovering from the c section.

Our family would be so grateful if you could pray for the following: 1. That baby girl will be delivered safely and that the NICU team can work miracles to help her with any issues that she may have being delivered early. 2. That my surgeries will go smoothly and I will recover quickly so I can be there for my babies. 3. The doctors will have the wisdom and knowledge they need to perform the surgeries to the best of their abilities. 4. That we will both come out of delivery with no lasting complications.
Thank you friends for all your comforting and loving words to me. I love you all dearly. The words I keep reading and remembering daily are from Isaiah 41:13: "For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." I believe in the power of prayer and positive thinking and have faith we will get through all of this.