We were ready to begin fertility treatments in the fall and it turned out that our "vacation insemination" aka trip to Europe worked. You can only imagine how thrilled we were after trying for so long. We thought our only hurdle would be hearing a heartbeat due to miscarrying in the past. We never even considered there might be other things to worry about.
As it turns out our baby has some abnormalities that are very concerning to the Doctors and us. It has too much fluid on the brain which isn't draining. Right now the specialist has said it is too early to know anything conclusively. In 3 weeks the baby's brain and skull will have developed enough to have a better picture of exactly what's going on. However if the fluid does not drain, this could be very detrimental to the development of the baby's brain and spinal cord.
We are very hopeful with the Doctors reassurance that this may still rectify itself and the fluid may drain. This is probably really bad but if not, our house came with a great wheel chair ramp. Sorry, we really have to keep a sense of humor about some of this.We are just asking people to pray on behalf of our baby, that the fluid will drain and that the baby can have the best quality of life possible. On the 10th of October we will be fasting for our baby's health and would really appreciate it if you could join us.
Thank you again. We are so blessed to have friends and family we can count on when we need them.
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CONGRATULATIONS! How exciting! I am so happy for you guys. Please keep us updated on the health of your little one. I will definitely be keeping you all in my prayers. This has to be so nerve racking for you. Just remember prayer and fasting is a powerful thing. Love you!!!!
WOW! What news! You will be in our thoughts and prayers. Please keep us updated. Love you!
Congratulations! We are so happy for you guys. And of course we will join you in your fast. I will email you more later. Love ya to pieces.
I am so happy you are pregnant, but am sad to hear about the complications. Of course we will pray for the baby and you guys.
Congratulations Kirstin and Travis! I am so happy for both of you and our family will be praying for your little baby. Let us know how things continually go and Kirstin, I hope that you are feeling well. :) We will keep you in our prayers.
We will pray! We love you.
Kirstin, Congratulations! We're so happy for you. We'll definitely keep your little baby in our prayers!
We are so excited that you are pregnant! Your precious baby will be in our prayers and we would LOVE to join you in a fast. Does the Lord hear people when they pray in Vegas??? j/k That's why we had to live in henderson so we could penetrate the "sin cloud" :)
Congratualtions! We will be praying for you!
Wow! i was so surprised to see a post from you guys! Congrats on the baby! so excited for you both, i know it has been a long, hard road. we will definitely be praying for you. hang in there, we were told early on that one or both of our girls might have some serious problems and it turned out they were fine, so you can't underestimate the power of prayer!
Just wanted to make sure that it was clear how much I love you.
congratulations!! there is so much strength in the power of prayer...we are definitely petitioning the LORD on your behalf! :)
k- i love you and your sense of humor! i will call every temple in the area (there are 4 around here) tomorrow morning and have your name on the prayer lists, and i will be fasting for you guys and lil baby for sure. i hope all goes well and congrats!
Congrats Bug! We will definitely keep you in our prayers.
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