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9. August 2009, 20:16 Uhrchildrentonex8 comments


Terran Matthew

There’s a new member of the family, Terran Matthew.

I thought I would never be a father.  I was wrong.  Sometime November October 2008, my wife and I planned to adopt.  We decided to start looking around that time in hopes of actually adopting come year 2009.   We decided to spend the rest of 2008 praying and asking for God’s guidance.  Adoption is no joke.  It has its own complications.  We wanted to be sure that we were prepared, not only for parenthood, but for the complications of having an adopted child.

However, one fine November December day (still year 2008), my wife called me to come home early because she was sick.  When I arrived, she told me she was pregnant.  It was the best news I’ve ever heard all my life.  Yes, she really wasn’t sick.  She just wanted me to come home early for her to deliver the good news. 

My wife’s pregnancy did not go smoothly.  She suffered from subchorionic hemorrhage.  She also suffered from low amniotic fluid.  My baby had nuchal cord coil but it wasn’t really looped around his neck, but imagine the agony of monitoring him move.  What if the chord finally coiled around his neck?

When we first learned of the cord coil, about 7 to 8 months in, we decided to go to the hospital everyday to have him NST-ed (Fetal Non-Stress Test).  It’s some test to determine if the baby’s heartbeat is normal.  If the chord coil strangles the baby, he would fail the NST and could be delivered premature.

We were in and out of the hospital two times (actual admittance) even before my baby was delivered! This is because of the unstable quantity of amniotic fluid in my wife’s belly.

All that we went through, it was all worth it ‘coz now we have the prize.  Our very own baby Terran Matthew.

From one struggle to the next…




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8 comments:

  1. joni, 12. August 2009, 23:38

    Wow. that’s good to hear. Miracle do happens. God is really good. I cant see any prob with your baby. he looks so normal. he’s cute :)

     
  2. tonex, 13. August 2009, 4:28

    Thanks joni. :)

     
  3. Selboy, 15. August 2009, 11:20

    congrats… mine is 3 months old already.

     
  4. tonex, 16. August 2009, 8:44

    Thanks, Sel. I know, I read your post about your baby.

     
  5. Beejing, 24. August 2009, 5:01

    Hey Tonex! I haven’t been able to read your blogs for quite sometime. Oh well, I’m so happy to know you’re now a proud father! Congratulations to you and your wife! I know your baby is a gift from the heavens.

    Please be safe.

     
  6. tonex, 24. August 2009, 9:32

    hey beej,

    That’s OK. I haven’t been reading blogs myself lately. Thanks!

     
  7. ramica-ideas, 24. August 2009, 14:08

    cute baby..Congrats to you and your wife
    bdw, can we exchange links?i’ll add u to my blog roll.
    http://www.ramia-ideas.com

     
  8. tonex, 31. August 2009, 12:15

    Sure,

    I’ll add you up.

     

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