Since our last post, Sara has been doing so much better. She is actually eating now and starting to gain some of that weight that you are actually supposed to be gaining during pregnancy. At her last appointment, Dr. Wickert just kept telling her to eat whatever she could! She is 15 weeks along now, and we are so looking forward to our next doctor's appointment in September when we will have another ultrasound. Hopefully, we will be able to find out if Baby Shoop is a boy or a girl! We know the grandmothers are anxious to be out buying more clothes than we will ever know what to do with!
Other than taking care of Sara and Baby Shoop, we have also started our usual fall schedules. Wesley had a very busy week at work the week before Purdue's classes started this fall. That same week, we also started FCI (Faith Community Institue) classes at church. Wesley is once again teaching "Overview of the Bible," and he has close to 50 people attending each week! Sara is taking a class on parenting so that we will at least know something about what to do when Baby Shoop arrives! Orchestra rehearsals and performances at church are also starting up again for Wesley in September. The rest of our week consists of relaxing in the evenings or getting the nursery ready for February.
We also want to say that Congratulations are in order for two of our best couple friends! Our friends Brent & Mary are expecting, due January 11th, although Sara wants that little one to wait and come on her birthday, January 12th! They are having a boy, and Brent has already said if we have a girl that it will be an arranged marriage! Our other friends, James & Kristal, are also expecting, due March 2nd. So, with our close friends, it has just been a baby boom! Troy & Sherry, are you ready yet for another one? (Just kidding!)
We will post as soon as we can when we find out about Baby Shoop's gender!
Hope everyone is doing well.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Our Good News!
We know, we know....it's been a REALLY long time since we have posted on our blog. We are sure some of our faithful blogger friends out there are getting really annoyed with us. But, we have a good reason this time, we promise.
We are expecting a baby!
Sara is about 12 weeks along now and the little Shoopster or Shoopette is due in February. We are of course very excited about the news, but this little miracle has also brought along some challenges.
Around 7 weeks, Sara was experiencing severe morning (or actually all-day) sickness, which quickly led to dehydration. After a round of IV's at the hospital and working with some different medications, the illness was still at a bad stage. So, her doctor (the wonderful and ever-patient (no pun intended) Dr. Wickert) put her on at-home care IV therapy. We won't go into all of that now, but some of the challenges of that were small veins and repeated tries at inserting IV lines that eventually led to having a PICC line (a more permanent IV line) put in.
Sara stayed on IV therapy for over 4 weeks, right up until just last Friday. The good thing was that she had the best nurse ever--her own husband, Nurse Wesley! Wesley was required to change out IV bags and flush PICC lines and pretty much do everything that needed to be done to take care of Sara. Now, for those of you who know Wesley well, you know that anything medical is NOT his thing. But, when it came to taking care of his Sara, he did his job like a champ!
So, now we are just trying to move forward after several weeks of these challenges. We know there will be more challenges that will come (including raising a child!), but we will take it one day at a time, and with God's provision, all will work out for our good. For now we are working on getting Sara's strength back up so that she will feel better and be able to get out of the house and resume more of a normal life.
The good news is that the baby is very healthy, in spite of all of the trouble Sara has been having. We have heard the baby's heartbeat several times (you get a lot of ultrasounds and sonograms when you are this sick during pregnancy! Sara has already had 4!) and Dr. Wickert assures us that it is perfect. We are deeply grateful that God has allowed our baby to be healthy through all of this.
We are very excited to be sharing this news with you. We have so appreciated the prayers and support of our friends and family during this time and we will keep you up-to-date as we move closer to the arrival of our little one! We promise!!!
P.S.--Our parents are ecstatic over this news. With this being the first grandchild on either side of our family, you can imagine the excitement. And the spoiling that will be to come!
We are expecting a baby!
Sara is about 12 weeks along now and the little Shoopster or Shoopette is due in February. We are of course very excited about the news, but this little miracle has also brought along some challenges.
Around 7 weeks, Sara was experiencing severe morning (or actually all-day) sickness, which quickly led to dehydration. After a round of IV's at the hospital and working with some different medications, the illness was still at a bad stage. So, her doctor (the wonderful and ever-patient (no pun intended) Dr. Wickert) put her on at-home care IV therapy. We won't go into all of that now, but some of the challenges of that were small veins and repeated tries at inserting IV lines that eventually led to having a PICC line (a more permanent IV line) put in.
Sara stayed on IV therapy for over 4 weeks, right up until just last Friday. The good thing was that she had the best nurse ever--her own husband, Nurse Wesley! Wesley was required to change out IV bags and flush PICC lines and pretty much do everything that needed to be done to take care of Sara. Now, for those of you who know Wesley well, you know that anything medical is NOT his thing. But, when it came to taking care of his Sara, he did his job like a champ!
So, now we are just trying to move forward after several weeks of these challenges. We know there will be more challenges that will come (including raising a child!), but we will take it one day at a time, and with God's provision, all will work out for our good. For now we are working on getting Sara's strength back up so that she will feel better and be able to get out of the house and resume more of a normal life.
The good news is that the baby is very healthy, in spite of all of the trouble Sara has been having. We have heard the baby's heartbeat several times (you get a lot of ultrasounds and sonograms when you are this sick during pregnancy! Sara has already had 4!) and Dr. Wickert assures us that it is perfect. We are deeply grateful that God has allowed our baby to be healthy through all of this.
We are very excited to be sharing this news with you. We have so appreciated the prayers and support of our friends and family during this time and we will keep you up-to-date as we move closer to the arrival of our little one! We promise!!!
P.S.--Our parents are ecstatic over this news. With this being the first grandchild on either side of our family, you can imagine the excitement. And the spoiling that will be to come!
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