I Gave Birth to a Baby Girl.

I haven’t written in a long time.

I had a baby.

I am mom to a beautiful baby girl born in August 2008. Her conception and birth is nothing short of a miracle for her father and I. In short, I found out I was pregnant around Christmas 2008. I was not undergoing fertility treatments. I was, however, on hormone replacement therapy to give me a monthly period (kind of like birth control pills). When my period didn’t come I simply thought I was going to have to return to the doctors and have my hormone dosage modified. I was wrong.

My husband and I spent my entire pregnancy in disbelief. We were afraid that if we believed in this little miracle it would be taken away from us. A year and a half ago the thought of me having a baby monitor attached to my hip while I wrote a blog entry would have seemed near impossible – and now, here I am doing just that!

Our baby is truly one in a million. And now that she is approaching eight months of age I wish people would refrain from asking when we plan on getting pregnant again. According to my many doctors, it wasn’t supposed to happen the first time, so my guess would be never.

When my husband and I discovered we were pregnant we continued to complete our adoption home study and were approved to adopt. We still plan on pursuing adoption someday soon, but for the moment we want to enjoy our baby girl. I love being a mom and I love my daughter. This is my family for now. Both my husband and I look forward to having our family grow through the miracle that is adoption.