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Thank you all so much for all of your kind words.  We are so excited and feel so incredibly blessed.  I feel like you have all been on this journey with us and have been there cheering us on along the way....so I couldn't wait to share this news with you!  Thank you for your support and for sharing your excitement with us.  It means a lot!

It's crazy to think that in just three and a half months, we will have a baby in our home.  My heart just melts and I get all sorts of sappy just thinking about it.   We are working with an amazing birth mother and father and this whole process has been a wonderful experience.  I'm not sure how I will ever be able to thank the birth parents enough for giving us the most precious gift in the whole world.

Now...I've always heard about those women who adopt and then get pregnant, but never did I think that would actually happen to us.  I was actually pretty convinced that I would never experience pregnancy and I was coming to terms with that.  After all, we were told we had a less than 1% chance of conceiving and after years and years of unexplained infertility, I just sort of removed the thought of ever getting pregnant from my mind.

So, when I woke up one day feeling all sorts of sick, of course my first thought was that I had the flu.  After a week had passed and I was still throwing up, I decided to go get some darn medicine to make this flu go away.  You can imagine my surprise when the doctor walked in and handed me a positive pregnancy test!  When I looked down and saw two little lines, the first thing I said was, "what does this mean?"  "That means you're pregnant," the doctor said enthusiastically.  I just laughed and told the poor doc that I wasn't pregnant because it was impossible for me to get pregnant, so it must be a fluke and can I please have some medicine to get rid of this flu.

"Nope, you're pregnant!"

He clearly wasn't understanding what I was saying.  "You see, I really can't get pregnant," I explained.  I truly believed there was no way I could be pregnant and pleaded for more testing.  

He laughed and sent me off to the hospital to get some lab work done.  After they poked and prodded me and took my blood, they called back a few hours later confirming that I was indeed pregnant.

I took another pregnancy test at home that night just to be sure for myself.  I was pretty sure that the doctor and nurses were all just playing a practical joke on me.

Even after 3 positive pregnancy tests, I was still skeptical.  They scheduled me to have an ultrasound later that week and when I saw the little bean in my belly with its little tiny heartbeat, a part of me started to believe that maybe (just maybe) I was in fact pregnant.

I'm now 14 1/2 weeks along and the continued daily nausea has helped convince me that there really is a little miracle baby growing inside me.  We heard the heartbeat again yesterday and it truly is a miracle.

My heart is just bursting at its seams with love for these two babies.  Our lives are about to change in a pretty big way and we're pretty darn excited about it.