Oh Happy Day!!!!!!

Of three things I am absolutely certain:
1. Jeremy and I do not need to be in a car together for longer than 2 hours.
2. The Lord has funny timing.
3. Jeremy and I are PREGNANT WITH A HEALTHY BABY!!!!!

We have been on pins and needles (literally) for the past couple of months keeping this "top secret" under our hats. While Jeremy was going through the worst of his injury and recovery I had chalked my exhaustion up to working my behind off to take care of him. Then the puking began and I took a test (which I was opposed to doing seeing as how I have literally PEED away several dollars in the past three years on tests that were negative!)

The test was positive much to my surprise. So I took another, and another, and another. When four tests finally agreed I made the call to Dr. Lyons office who saw me the same day. I went in for blood work (passed out after they took my blood) and they called the next day to say my numbers were good and they wanted me to come in for an ultrasound. I went in and everything looked great. At this time I was six weeks.

Since then I have seen Dr. Lyons twice and today I went to a specialist, Dr. Graves, at the Tennessee Fetal and Maternal Medicine Clinic at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. After a series of tests we found out the most AMAZING results!! There is an answer to ALL of the problems I have EVER had during pregnancy and it is TREATABLE!!!

I have some indications that I may have Lupus, but those results are what led the doctors to discover a blood clotting condition (that has about three words in it that are a mile long each). This clotting condition is responsible for:
-all the miscarriages we have had
-Colby being so small at birth
-Colby coming early
-The HELLP syndrome that made me so sick when I had Colby

I am now taking one shot of blood thinner each day in my stomach along with a baby aspirin and 4 grams of folic acid each day. Dr. Graves said that this medicine regime has a 97% success rate of helping and an 80% success rate for PERFECT pregnancies and births!!! Jeremy and I were so thrilled to finally have an answer to our problems!!!

We are now 11 weeks in and the baby is doing wonderfully. I did not want to tell until 12 weeks, but the doctors have assured me that this is going to happen this time for us because the causes are known and treatable, so we decided to finally share our good news with all of you!

I go back to Nashville and Dr. Lyons again in 4 weeks unless I need them sooner. Please keep us all in your prayers for a healthy pregnancy and baby!!!