6 Weeks Later~An Update

The last six weeks have been a big blur. It's summertime and life is busy anyway, but we received some very unexpected news that my brother-in-law has Type 1 Diabetes. That would be serious in any situation, but it greatly impacts his career in the Navy. At this point, he's been removed from the boat he was working on and has been given a desk job at a US base until January. The Navy is working to stabilize his condition and in January they will determine if they will let him remain in the Navy in some capacity or grant him medical discharge. The planned move overseas, for he and my sister, has been cancelled. He's simply too sick to deploy. There are many unanswered questions and the two of them are rather stressed. I've done a lot of listening and just trying to be as supportive as possible. This is a difficult situation for them, but I trust that God will use the entire experience to draw the two of them onto Himself.

Daisy and Simon are doing well. God has surprised us with some developments Hubby's music ministry. Yet another thing that has been taking up some of our time. We have some decisions to make and are patiently/impatiently waiting for the Lord to reveal His perfect plan to us.

Blessed Baby Number 3 is happy and well. We weren't able to hear the baby's heartbeat with the Doppler machine at 11 weeks like I'd hoped. I did end up in tears and with another "emergency" ultrasound. (My midwife doesn't perform ultrasounds unless absolutely necessary, so in my book they're "emergency" ultrasounds). The baby appeared on the screen healthy and very active. My midwife thinks she was unable to find the baby's heartbeat with the Doppler simply because he/she was so active.

The little weasel was just as active at 15 weeks and my midwife struggled for 15 minutes to track down the heartbeat with the Doppler machine. I keep thinking it should get easier as the baby gets bigger. We never struggled this much with my other two children. We have a 20 week ultrasound in early September. We're hoping to be able to find out the gender of the baby. I'm just too impatient to wait and I think it will help Simon and Daisy if we can call the baby by name and make it more personal for them.

I think we have a girl's first name, the middle name is still up for debate. But we have no boy's names what so ever. The interesting thing is that's what happened when I was pregnant with Simon. We could not come up with a girl name for the life of us. Turned out not to be an issue =) Maybe we can't come up with a boy's name this time because the baby is a girl???? I'm convinced I have no Mother's Intuition at all. I had the gender of both my children wrong. I was sure Daisy was going to be a boy and Simon was going to be a girl. I'm simply going to rely on the ultrasound technician and the doctor to let me know =)

This update is ridiculously long. Have a good weekend, everyone!