New Bath: Thanks to my husband and dad!!

Check out what we did! We are flipping this house! So exciting! We had a very busy holiday season. It started the week of Thanksgiving and my parents came and spent a week with us at our house WORKING. It was amazing. Brent took some time that week off work to move the project along and help dad. When they left, all the tile was down but we still had sealing, painting, and base boards to lay. Dad was great enough to come down for another week before Christmas and finish those items for us.


We also found I was preggo during this time so I became less and less helpful. I basically took the job and spotting all the mess ups and asking for adjustments. I tried to be nice about it. Was I guys?? I really do hope so. Sorry if I was not.

As you can see in the final picture, we still have to put up the fixtures and get a glass door. The door may take awhile since it has to be specially made, so until then we will have a temporary curtain.

Anyways, I am so thankful for all your hard work you both put in and it looks AWESOME!!

Thanks Brent and Dad!! Two amazing men to have in my life!!

YAY! For heartbeats!!

Yay! We heard our baby's heartbeat today! It was a quick appointment and we did not have any pictures taken to share but the doctor was pleased with what she heard. To me, it sounds like the ocean in there. haha. But I am so thankful that our baby is doing well.

I do not have another belly shot to show either, basically because I have not changed much. I have only gain a pound and a half since the end of November. But I am eating and eating every few hours, just not as much each time, so no worries.

Our next appointment is on Valentine's Day and blood work will be taken to check the baby for a few things. I thought we would find out what we are having at our February appointment but we will not, maybe the next one. I can't wait!! I want to know so bad, so I will be able to call this baby by its name.

we SAW the heartbeat yesterday!

It was still a little to early to actually hear the heartbeat yesterday but we definitely could see it! It was so neat to see our baby and he/she is growing with each visit. The doctor said we are right on target. My official due date is July 29th, right in the middle of mine and Brent's birthdays! How fun!

Here are a couple pictures from our visits:

(5.5 weeks, above)

(7 weeks, above)
This is the appointment when we saw the heartbeat. We go back in January, when I am about 12 weeks, and the doctor said we will definitely hear it at that visit.

(6 weeks)
My first belly shot. Not much baby to show off yet, just a little of me...

Still waiting on heartbeats from the little one...

We had our 10 day check-up this morning, which we were hoping to hear the first heartbeat. We are still waiting. On our last visit, the doctor pulled out her little wheel (Which if you never have been pregnant you might not know what I am talking about, I sure didn't until I saw it. The wheel is a little object the doctor uses to predict lots of things, such as conception, how far along, and a due date.) and said I was in my 5th week, so it was too early to hear anything but we saw a black dot. Well today, there were changes in her prediction and growth with our baby but it is still too early. Dr. Levin now thinks I am in my 5th week. I know that seems odd, how could she be off, but all women are different and we all are on our own time table with our cycles (at first doctors go by the book standard of 28 days). Mine is longer then most. But the good news is is that there was GROWTH and a yoke sac! So now, I am to go back in another 10 days to hopefully then hear the first heartbeat! I think she is going to make me keep coming back until she hears something which I am thrilled to do so! I am so thankful to have a doctor who cares, finally. She is truly great! I recommend her to any of you who live in the Houston area. She is at Memorial City.

Thanks for your prayers and keep praying. This first trimester is hard and risky for any one. I am taking a particular hormone though to hopefully prevent miscarriage. Pray against that and that I will carry this baby to full-term, happy, and healthy.

I plan to post our first pictures when I get home tonight. Check back later!

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Our family is growing and God is so good!

Hi Everyone! Some of you this will be a surprise and others of you know this story but we wanted to share the recent happenings in our lives.

God is still healing, working miracles, and showing us everyday that it is His timing and not our own. In January, after about a year and 4 months on various birth controls, Brent and I decided to stop taking it because it was affecting my body too much and not in a good way. Since then, I have been very irregular which made it difficult to start a family. About 6 months ago, we decided that we wanted to start a family and when you decide that you want it now. Well that did not happen. I don't like going to the doctor, especially that kind of doctor, so I avoided it. Finally, it was time for my annual exam and a friend (Ali) suggested that I get my hormone levels check through blood work while I was there to make sure everything was where it should be. So I went to the doctor, told her we were trying, explained about my cycles, and had blood taken. She wanted to see me again in 3 weeks, which was today.

Last Monday (the 12th), the nurse called and said my results were in. Some of them were expected/routine, but some of them were heartbreaking. First, the minor one. The nurse told me that I was not immune to Rubella and that I would have to get that shot and take birth control for three months and NOT get pregnant. Who wants to hear that when they want a baby so badly? Not me.

Second. The crushing news. She told me that I had signs of PCOS, which is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. That means that my ovaries are overactive and produce a lot of small eggs that would not develop into a pregnancy, but would be easily corrected with medication (fertility drugs). That hurt. I cried alot and encouraged alot by friends. There was hope and nothing is impossible with God. I know that but wow, that was so hard to hear. To hear that I might not be able to have babies or that it would be difficult. The only thing I have ever truly wanted to do in life was be a wife and mom and that was slipping away.

http://www.thefertilesoul.com/Diagnosis/PCOS/

Well, towards the end of last week, I was waiting for my cycle to start because it was unlikely that I would be pregnant, but I still had a strange hope that I would be. I prayed. Friends prayed. Family prayed. I just kept reminding myself and praying that God is bigger then me, then a doctor, then medicine, then anything. He can do all things. Heal all things, make then even disappear.

Saturday morning my period still had not came so I took a pregnancy test and it was...

POSITIVE!!!

OH! I couldn't believe it! It was 6 AM when I tested on a Saturday morning, so when I went to wake Brent he was not too thrilled (at that point he didn't know I just tested...) but when he realized what was going on he was just as thrilled as I was. I didn't know what to feel. I wanted to scream and cry all at the same time which was a little confusing for B, but girls are a little more emotional, that's just how we are wired I guess. It was so perfect too because my parents were in town and Brent's parents too and I always hoped we would be able to tell them both in person and maybe even at the same time. God is so good to give us the desires of our hearts.

Today was my second appointment with the doctor. She thought I was there to talk about fertility and I was there to confirm being pregnant. It was great. When she started asking me about how my cycles usually are I said, "Well my last one was on October 15th, so Saturday I took a test and it was positive." She did a double take and said, "Positive, like positive as in your pregnant??!!" She wanted to do an ultrasound right then and see what was there. It was awesome! I am only 5 weeks and 1 day so there is only a tiny black spot, but it is in the uterus and the lining looked good she said, so I am now going back in 10 days to hopefully see more and hear the heartbeat for the first time!! How exciting is that! She also had me do another urine test just to be sure and all things were good to go. Sorry for all the details but this is so exciting and so good I had to share!

Brent and I want this blog to be a way to connect with our friends and family, so that they know all the happenings in our lives, more so what is happening with our baby. We plan to post updates throughout the pregnancy and throughout our baby's life, so if you live near or far, you can comment and keep in touch!

We love all of you and thank you all for praying for us during this time as our family grows. Please keep us in your prayers throughout the pregnancy but more specifically through the first trimester, since that is the most sensitive time.

Love you all,
Brent and Leigh Ann