There can be miracles.....

We currently do not have Internet, so I am writing this on my phone. Please forgive the typos and autocorrect mistakes.

Before I go into details on our current situation, I want to put a little disclaimer out there: If you are a momma please know that my opinions are not a judgment on any birthing experience. I am in no way criticizing or judging someone who thinks about all this baby stuff differently than my own thoughts. To each there own.

Ok so here it is..... God has truly placed having a baby as naturally as possible on my heart. Last week when my doctor told me a natural birth would not be possible because of Luke's size, I was confused.  Those are two contradictory ideas.

I did not understand how to make sense of the two, but Kev and I whole heartedly trusted that God would sort this all out one way or another.

We met with our doula on Friday for the first time. Amazing is about the only word that sums her up. Regardless of if she agrees with me, she got me. She understood where my heart was with all of this. It was decided at our meeting that she was going to call around to some birth clinics and see if they would even hear our story. You see, in Japan you have to register your pregnancy with an institution (hospital, clinic, ext) as soon as you find out you are pregnant. If you don't, it is close to impossible to get the institution to let you deliver your baby there. We both knew it was very unlikely that a clinic would take me this late into my pregnancy.

By 11am on Saturday, our doula had called us twice with gobs of info. Some of it was discouraging. She had called so many clinics that wouldn't even entertain the thought of accepting me because they said that if a doctor has said our baby is too big and has requested an induction or c-section then an induction or c-section is what I need.

The good news was that she did find a clinic about 45 minutes away that would at least let us visit.  midwife was interested in meeting with us and hearing our story.

So at 10am today we went to the maternity clinic and met with the midwife. She showed us around the facility. I gave her all of my medical records for this pregnancy. Not only was I on cloud 9 from seeing the facility and hearing her philosophy on labor and deliver, she also said she would take us on! There was just one thing... We needed to get a second opinion from another doctor.

She made us an appointment with a doctor near her clinic. She drove us there and sat with us. We were there for about 30 minutes. We never saw the doctor or gave him information about Luke. The nurse came out to talk to her and told her the same ol' thing... If my doctor said the baby is too big then he is too big.

The midwife asked us to try one more doctor. She said that if he would not see us then her clinic could not take us. We had to wait until the late afternoon for the appointment. Kev and I went to lunch. We were annoyed, yes, but we also knew that this was it. Whatever this doctor did would be our final say at what to do about Luke's delivery.  We would accept that and be ok with it. We prayed. We gave the whole situation over to God again and then just rested in knowing that what will be will be.

At 4 we met with the midwife at our appointment. We waited for a little while and Kev said that just as they called me back, "There can be miracles, when you believe" came on the radio. Coincidence? Ha!

 The midwife explained our story to the doctors. We showed them our ultrasounds and paperwork. They seemed to think it was odd that our doctor had scheduled an induction so early on. We had three different doctors exam me with three different ultrasounds and the consensus from all three was that our baby has crazy long femurs, our baby is definitely a boy, and our baby is not too big. And with that the midwife told us we could cancel with our hospital and that she would see me on Friday for an appointment and yoga.

There really can be miracles when you believe.  I don't care how cheesy that sounds!  We serve an awesome God who is concerned with the details. Praise Him!

Thank you for your words of encouragement and prayers. We are so incredibly blessed with sweet friends and family.


Tomorrow we head to the hospital to officially cancel the induction and to politely explain we will be going elsewhere for labor and delivery.

The other blessing with switching to this maternity clinic is that now we don't have to spend gobs of money on a private room!  Yay! We are so happy... So very happy.