The Prompting 2019

I'm kinda jumping ahead a little bit, though I do have plans to write a couple blogs about twins down the road. I just wanted to get all this written while it was still fresh.

                                                

In January of 2019, I told Randy that I was baby hungry. He just laughed. Our boys were about 8 months old at the time. We knew that we couldn't afford treatment at the time or another child but I told him that maybe it was the Lord telling us we needed to be praying about WHEN the right time would be. By July of that year we both knew that we needed to go start treatment sometime in 2020. So we planned to shoot for the end of 2020 as we wanted to have our IVF loan payed off completely before starting treatment and this was when we assumed we'd have this done.

Then October came along, we have a huge church conference that's held that first weekend, and as we watched we realized we were wrong on our timeline. Just as a name came giving us a nudge for our twins, I had a name come to me while watching conference. I told Randy and he agreed. Now we just had to figure out HOW and WHEN. We did not want to go into anymore debt if possible and we now had to narrow down our timeline again. As we both felt that we needed to go earlier in the year of 2020.

Then a few miracles happened, we were extremely blessed and at the end of November we paid off our IVF loan. Once that was done we began saving whatever we could to go towards treatment. We had thought that we should plan for May or June for our transfer and that's what we were going to stick to.

But when we paid off that loan so much sooner, we just felt this push that we needed to go even sooner. We knew that a January transfer was out but we could probably do February or March, if I called ASAP. So in the middle of December I called and set up my first consultation appointment to be done over the phone in the beginning of January.

That phone call was basically seeing how my pregnancy with my boys went and to see if I have had any medical changes occur from the time I had last seen them which was when we got pregnant with our boys. We then set up my appointment for the initial blood work and water ultrasound for the end of January.

At the time we didn't understand the prompting for going in for treatment sooner in 2020. But now that we are past that point and know what we do now about the COVID-19 virus and how it would effect all treatment beginning in the middle of March and even now as places are just starting to open up again to begin treatments, we truly understand.

Til next time,
Becca