visiting St. Louis Children's Hospital

Just wanted to send a quick update and ask for some specific prayer (again). First though, thank you SO, SO much for your outpouring of love, support and prayer for our family. We are feeling it! :)

 

Pregnancy... I am feeling good these days other than some leg pain due to severe, pregnancy-induced varicose veins. Yuck! I had them with Emily, too, but not nearly this bad (or painful). But, all in all, feeling good. Trying to soak up the last few weeks of summer break especially with my big girl.

 

Baby Girl... John and I are headed to St. Louis Wednesday for a full day of meeting with doctors, having tours and even another ultrasound. Looking forward to seeing our sweet girl again! This is a “get-to-know-you” visit for us to check things out, talk through our situation with the docs, etc. We will also be visiting Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in the next couple of weeks. We’ve pretty much narrowed it down to those two hospitals. So far, just by phone and email contact, we are very impressed with St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and we are looking forward to having some critical discussions with the neonatologist, cardiothoracic surgeon and maternal fetal medicine doctor as well as touring the facilities and meeting other staff there. Huge thank you to my sweet sister-in-law, Lucy, and family for hosting us for the night and taking our sweet girls for us all day while John and I head to St. Louis! Thank you, Luc!

 

So, prayer requests for now...

• Complete healing for Baby Girl’s heart and confirmation of that with the ultrasound tomorrow. Our God is BIG. He can do it! :)
• Safe travels to and from St. Louis.
• Good visits with doctors, staff, etc. and clarity and unity for John and I in deciding whether St. Louis is the place for us and Baby Girl...should God choose not to heal her. :)
• That we would continue to enjoy this pregnancy and not let the situation steal our joy in welcoming our sweet baby girl into this world. It’s hard to explain, but it’s a strange situation to be in with all the decision-making, planning, thinking we’re having to do. Still trusting God in all of it though.

Thank you again for the continued love, support and prayer. Wish we could express in words how grateful we are for you!