POSITIVE!

Hello dear family and friends! If you are reading this post then things are progressing well with the pregnancy! We have experienced early loss before, so we want to be more sensitive this time and wait to tell most people the happy news until baby's health is more certain!

In the meantime, it is really hard not to tell each of you the good news! We must fight the impulse to tell each of you, our Starbucks barista, the checker at the grocery store, and the guy in the car next to us on the freeway. Instead, we must release our excitement in this blog to share with you at a later date.

We got our first positive test result on Feburary 6th (Superbowl Sunday). I was hoping it would be positive, but wasn't really expecting to see a second line when I went back to check on the test. When I saw the second line, I sucked all the air out of the room and said, "I see something!" Pete came running over, peered over my shoulder, and confirmed that he saw another pink line too! We smiled, hugged, kissed, and took some pictures.

Every day since, we have tested and the second line has gotten progressively darker - a great sign that baby is content to hang out in my belly! We are incredibly blessed and so excited! At first, it didn't quite feel real to either of us, but as each day has passed and we've seen "progress," we are becoming increasingly excited and so grateful for the little life God has chosen to be a part of ours.

This is truly a miracle in our lives because we have been told by doctors that there was a statistical probability we would be unable to have children. We are so grateful that God has shown Himself to be greater than our statistical label and our well-meaning doctors.