Our Big News!

We are so thankful, grateful, humble, and excited to announce baby Nelson! I am 11 weeks and due in September. We have seen the baby three times and everything looks perfect. I was released from my specialist today which was a great milestone and very emotional. Dr. Phy and her office have become family to us. The baby has fingers, toes, a strong heartbeat, and a lot of spunk!

We are so thankful to our Father for hearing our prayers (and yours on our behalf) He was so faithful. Even before we knew we were pregnant, we felt His presence and His peace during these past couple of months. This child is to his glory and humbly recognize Him as the creator of this life. I told a friend this week that I felt like one of the Baxters and could run around singing "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" all day long.

Many of you know after my second miscarriage I was diagnosed with Antiphospholipid syndrome. Basically this means when I get pregnant, my blood thickens and forms clots. I have been and will continue to take a blood thinner shot in my stomach every day until two days before my C-Section. I am so thankful that they found this. The amazing thing is that a pregnancy only has a 10% chance of making it to full term and delivery if this is untreated. Over half of the miscarriages occur after 32 weeks. We had a friend recently miscarry at 37 1/2 weeks and she was diagnosed with this after. The amazing this is that I had this with Carley and had no idea. She is a 10% chance! I love that little curly headed miracle running around our home! That being said, we do covet prayers for a healthy pregnancy. Treated with the blood thinner shots, you have like a 90% chance of a healthy pregnancy so we are really thankful to be on them, even though my stomach looks like I have been beaten with a bat! :)

We are all just so excited and thankful for this little blessing already!