Not our will but His be done....

We moved to CT on Adah's 11mth birthday (this past April). I was still nursing her but began to notice that my milk supply was drying up....and fast. We tried switching her to formula but she was NOT having it so we had to make an appointment with her pediatrician. I was sad cause I still wanted to nurse her....I had a goal set for 1 year and was sooo set on making it there! I enjoyed that time we had together....I just loved every part of nursing my baby! When we went to the pediatrician she gave us the go ahead to start trying her on cows milk....well Adah didn't take a bottle and wouldn't so we tried sippy cups and that was a no go...so for a few weeks she was getting her dairy from yogurt and cheese. Adah finally decided that she would drink from a camelback water bottle...after 3 weeks of that and traveling to Texas and back with those stupid huge water bottles I gave her no choice but to drink from a sippy.....well she fooled me and grabbed the sippy the first time I sat it down and acted like it was no big deal and she had been drinking from one forever! While at the ped. she recommended that I go see my ob/gyn and get some tests run...well in order to see one(since we just moved) I had to go see my primary care to get a referral! Grrr! I did some research on the computer on reasons why my milk supply might dry up and there were several different things.....pregnancy, sickness, just because....I thought that it was going to be just my time to stop....however we did take a pregnancy test just to be sure and like I thought it was negative! So I go to see my doctor to get a referral and she took blood so that she could run a few tests on my thyroid, etc. I got a call later that afternoon from my doctor and this was the conversation we had:

dr-"hi is this Amanda"

me-"yes"

dr-"well I know why your milk supply dried up"

me-"ok"

dr-"YOUR PREGNANT"

me-"Are you serious? Are you sure?"

dr.-"this is Amanda...your husband is Josh....he is a LT?"

me-interrupting her "yes...I know...its me....I'm just...you're sure?"

dr-"yep...your pregnant....Congrats"

me-"thanks"

Needless to say I was in complete shock! Don't get me wrong...I am BEYOND excited about this new precious life. I couldn't be more thrilled to have another baby! I just couldn't help but think about how it was "bad timing" in OUR plan....we wanted to wait at least 3 years to have baby #2....mainly so that Josh would be around for the birth and at least the first year of the kid's life! But like Josh and I both know God is in control....His plan is PERFECT....its better than any plan we could ever make on our own and HE WILL carry us through.

We have a lot of decisions to make in the coming months as Josh will be headed back to a boat in October and baby D2 is due in December! Josh is currently assigned to a boat that is in the shipyard in Virginia but will have a home port in Georgia come April/May of next year!

We are so excited about the journey ahead for us! We are so excited to be a family of 4 and to give Adah a little friend!