Exciting news!

Jake and I have some exciting news to announce. We are pregnant! It took many tears, doctor visits, medication, surgery, and more medication. But it finally happened! I am considered a high risk pregnancy right now. There is a cyst that every pregnant women has in the first trimester, that provides the baby with the progesterone that it needs to survive until the placenta is formed and takes over the job, and mine is 7cm right now. Normally, it is quite small. It is a side effect of the fertility drugs that I was on. Unfortunately, mine will continue to grow and get bigger until 10 weeks when the placenta is formed and takes over the job of the cyst. This is quite painful. When I went into the doctor's office on Monday and we found out that the cyst had grown from 3cm to 7cm in two weeks. The bad news is that these next two weeks, the cyst is going to grow the biggest and even faster. So when I go into the doctor in one more week, he will see how big the cyst is and tell me if I have to be on bed rest. The baby is doing fine and we heard the heart beat on Monday. There is just a risk of the cyst twisting and it will be quite painful and possibly harmful to the baby. So as of right now, I cannot pick up my boys, bend, twist...DO ANYTHING. We are just waiting until the first trimester is over and then the cyst will start to shrink and once that happens, I can go back to exercising, picking up the kids, and all the things that we take for granted. I will feel so much better...or that is what we hope. I am already starting to show, the cyst has made that possible rather quickly. The doctor keeps telling me that as of right now, it's like I am carrying triplets, with how big the cyst is. Jake and I are really happy and thank our Heavenly Father every day for letting us be parents to our third child.