Just Waiting .....

Our new baby is almost here and I'm impatiently waiting. In the meantime, I thought that I had better get on top of updating this site!

For those of you who didn't even know that we were pregnant again, please forgive me. I have been awful about staying in touch. We found out that we were pregnant just days before we were officially put on the waiting list for our adoption. (It was a big suprise!) We are still on the waiting list, but we're putting that on hold for a little while.

When I found out I was pregnant, I started seeing a new doctor and he found that I have a couple of blood clotting disorders which could have contributed to a lot of my miscarriages. I have something called Factor II and I'm homozygous for MTHFR. So, I have been giving myself injections of Heparin (a blood thinner) in my stomach twice each day. The injections have made for a very long pregnancy!

Here are a couple of pictures that Case took of my pregnant belly. (I've touched up most of them with Photoshop, but Case wanted me to included an untouched one to show the battle scars from giving myself the heparin injections.)

37 weeks pregnant

Ella & Mom and Adlai & Mom

Here's the untouched photo. YIKES!