God is so good, faithful and absolutely almighty! I am so thankful to Him for this amazing blessing! I want to say miracle, but I recently learnt that blessings are better than miracles, so I guess technically the correct term is blessing. You have all followed me on this journey, you know I have believed this will happen and it did! This has given me a lot more hope for full and complete healing for Shumi too!
Yes, it’s true! I am pregnant and it happened all naturally! The only medication DH and I took was folic acid and evening primrose oil capsules. Nothing else! No help from any doctor! It happened entirely naturally! It just proves that God is almighty and faithful! We are absolutely ecstatic!
It’s almost a year ago that I got my first ever BFP with the help of our fertility clinic and IVF, but this time I got my BFP naturally. So after 11 and a half years, 8 IUI’s, 3 fresh IVF’s and 1 FET and at the age of 40, I got pregnant naturally because I finally found out that infertility is not God’s will for us and that He actually blesses His children with fertility in the Bible! God has healed me!
This cycle I had probably the best CM ever, (6 consecutive days) and I ensured that we BD’d (sorry TMI) for 6 days out of 7 over ovulation period. I figured that is the environment that keeps the sperm alive for the longest so I might just as well take advantage of it. I must say one thing that was different this month was that I knew I was pregnant, I didn’t believe it anymore, I knew it. That is why I started testing at 10dpo (10 days past ovulation) already and I got my first very faint positive that day! (I admit I was a little surprised to get that feint second line, but not as surprised as you might think! I think I just mentally prepared myself that the first one might be negative, but I expected a positive eventually.) I’ve never, ever tested as early as that before! Lately I’ve been getting braver, and the last few months I started to test at 12dpo, but those tests were always negative.
At 11dpo (Monday morning) I convinced DH that I must go for a blood test. The tests were so feint that DH didn’t want to believe that I might actually be pregnant. But I POAS again and the line was darker than the day before. I had to wait more than a day for the results (awful and extremely stressful!) but eventually I got a beta of 50. The sister at our clinic was a bit apprehensive about the number, I told her it was only 11 dpo, but she still insisted that I go for a second beta and that it must double.
So 13dpo (today) I went for a second blood test and the beta came back 195. Almost 4 times as much! The sister sounded so surprised, but ecstatic for our part. I’m not sure whether she believes I got pregnant naturally or not, she keeps asking me if it was the case.
So what did the trick? It took quite a few months to get pregnant, since I heard the first life changing message. I’ve learnt so much, but I think the most important lessons were: That it’s not God’s will for us to be infertile or have miscarriages, I also learnt that God was waiting on me, and not that I was waiting on God. God was waiting for me to get ready, to change and to be able to receive. I had to learn to believe and to stop doubting, I never knew that you can do both at the same time (that’s a post I must still write!). I learnt that I was limiting God, especially with fear, but also with my thoughts, and I had to learn to see myself pregnant (I’ve only been doing that for about 2 weeks!) I learnt that the devil is a defeated foe and that the only power he has is to lie (deceive us) and once you believe his lies you give power to the devil. If you know the truth then you won’t believe his lies, and then he has no, none, nada power over you! And I don’t know if this was significant or not, but I realized I can be happy without children.
Although I’m pregnant now I know God healed me progressively, which is not God’s best by the way, but I guess my faith was not such that I could believe in immediate healing. I have mentioned in previous posts that things got better over time. That pain disappeared eventually, that my CM got better over time, that my cycles go a bit longer again and that my spotting got better at the end of each cycle, etc. God heals according to at what level our faith is. It took me quite some time, but someone else might get healed immediately and be pregnant a month, or two weeks later, or it might take someone a few months or years.
I guess what I’m saying is this can also happen to you, because believe me, there is nothing special about me, and it doesn’t need to take the time it took me, it all depends on where your faith is at. Please know that nothing is impossible with God. I have heard stories of miracles happen where a man grew back a foot after his was amputated, and of someone who had to grow new lenses in their eyes and being healed from blindness, so even if you have no more tubes for instance, God can heal you and get you pregnant naturally! No matter what is wrong with you, nothing is impossible for God, but you must believe it is possible!
Wow…congratulations!! Praying for a healthy pregnancy!!
Congrats!! God is so AMAZING!!!!!!
Baie opgewonde vir jou!
I found a link to your blog on MAC and PC, and I just have to say that my story is very similar to yours!! Our IUI’s and IVF’s failed last year, and we decided last summer to forego any other medical interventions/medications, and just focus on being healthy and leaving the timing in God’s hands. We received our BFP on 1/29, and we feel so grateful for this child it is really impossible to express in words. Praise God for your blessing- I am going to add you to my list and look forward to what else God has in store for you!
congrats!
WOW! I am continually amazed by God!!! I am so happy for you as your journey has been long- but look at all that you learned through it!!! My oh my- looks like I have more to learn. You give me so much hope for our future and I am going to continue to pray that God blesses us, but I am also going to look inside my heart and see what I can do to believe more! Thanks your sister in Christ
Wow — this is incredible!!! Congratulations is an understatement!!! Wishing you a very happy and healthy pregnancy and the full joy of your blessing at the end of it!
This is awesome news!!! Congrats! What a Mighty God We Serve!!!
Ah Marion I am so so thrilled for you. When you fell pregnant last year after your IVF I was also just pregnant and our babies were due around the same time at Christmas. I was so devastated for you when you lost your baby and I think of you often and have followed your journey via your blog. My baby girl is 4 months now and all I can say is you have the most amazing incredible time ahead to look forward to. It is so so special. I wish you a healthy and happy 9 months and well done for believing and having such strong faith… it is not easy.
Take lots of care
What absolutely wonderful news! I am so happy for you Marion. And you are so correct in saying that we must trust in God and that he does not want Infertility and miscarriages for us. We just need to keep on believing in him!
Congratulations to you and your DH. Please God keep this babie/s safe and deliver a healthy little one to them in 8 months time. Amen.
Awesome news!!!! Congratulations 🙂 That is fantastic and it’s awesome how you can stay so strong and committed to your faith…. May you continue to be blessed with a healthy pregnancy that sees you realising your dreams in 9 months xxx
Your faith and strength have resulted in this blessing Marion. I am so happy for you and will try to learn from you and stop doubting and believing at the same time (which I know I do), and maybe we can be blessed a second time. CAn’t wait for your first scan and to hear all your updates.
Wow!! What a fantastic and beautiful story! I love how you knew that you are pregnant. 😀 Congratulations!
I am so happy for you Marion!!! Such a blessing.
Wow! So amazing! I’m so so so happy for you, on so many levels, especially on a faith level. Congratulations Marion! May you have a blessed and beautiful pregnancy!
We truly serve and Awesome God!!!!
Praise God – He is Almighty and NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM. Thank you Jesus for this blessing!
Marion, I am SO happy and excited for you, I just KNEW that your breakthru was at hand, I just knew it. I could feel it in my spirit everytime I prayed for you and DH and I just KNEW our God was getting ready to bless you in an amazing way.
What a wonderful testimony this will be for so many.
Mighty wonderful miracle working healing providing God. YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
XXX
*Congrats again my friend..
I love what you said when you say, i quote “..God healed me progressively..” because it is exactly in line with Exodus 23:28-30
We always expect to pray and as soon as we open our eyes bam what ever we prayed for is there. Indeed in Isaiah 65, God says that before we even finish praying He will answer, which to me directly confirms what you are saying that God was now waiting on you.
..because between our prayes and the answer, is a road called walk-of-Faith, sometimes its shorter, the other time its longer but i believe God takes us there that we may learn to wait upon Him and Him only, that we may learn to be patient and believe in the prayers we have made to Him.
You have passed the waiting-on-God test.. and may He grow your Faith even further. Im so happy for you and Dh, continue to bear your testimony to the Glory of His name. 🙂
Wit Love & God Bless
Zah
Oh such huge congratulations Marion that is so awesome! Our God is indeed a big God and worthy of praise.
Dear Marion, I’m trying to apply some of the principles u are imparting here. And i wonder, how do u reconcile believing God’s will for me is to healthy children and also at the same time, “realise I can be happy without children”?
Your reply will be greatly appreciated.
Well what I tried to say was I realized that my happiness no longer had to depend on whether I had children or not. I still really wanted children, but I did not have to let my emotions about infertility rule my life anymore. I started to focus on other things that made me happy and things that I enjoyed instead of focussing on the sadness and feeling miserable because of the fact that we did not have children. I tried to change my perspective to one of a positive attitude instead of a negative attitude, and I truly believe it was only with the help of God that I was able to accomplish this.
WOW.. PRAISE GOD.. IM IN SAME SHOES .. 11 YR + MARRIED, MISCARRIAGES…. AND I BELEIVE THAT THE GOOD LORD WILL BLESS ME THID MONTH.. AND I WILL GET PREGNANT.. THANK YOU JESUS!!….