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Mother’s day is a few days away, for us in the United States, mother’s day comes up this Sunday, May 9th! Becoming a mother has seriously changed my life, I cherish this precious gift. The other day, I glanced at my oldest daughter and started reminiscing on my memories as a first-time mom, I was amazed to see how time has flown by. In a few months, my firstborn will be seven!
In 2017, I started a series tagged “Supernatural Woman” where I shared my first two pregnancy experiences. I gave birth to my third bundle of joy last year and I must say that the experience was totally different. Just like the other pregnancies, it was definitely a journey; there were some twists and turns but it ended in a smooth delivery.
Prior to finding out that I was pregnant, I had been trying to get pregnant for some months and I began to panic. In the past, I got pregnant shortly after stopping birth control but this time around days turned to weeks and weeks to months. Negative thoughts began to flood my mind and the devil started to feed me with lies.
I once shared how the devil started attacking me with thoughts about pregnancy while I was a teenager. For years, I was afraid that I would have difficulty having children until I found out the truth and held on to it until I got married. God’s Word works! For my first child, we got pregnant earlier than planned without any stress.
One day while talking to someone dear to me, she told me how her mom had secondary inferitlity, hence the major age gap between her and her younger brother; her mother had three children, after the first two children, she waited years before conceiving the third. Prior to that, I never knew that there something called secondary infertility. I didn’t know it then, but that information sunk deep into me and I unconsciously accepted it as a possibility for me.
Over a year later, I found myself fighting the thought. With each passing month, I had to step up my faith game. It was difficult to talk about it to anyone besides my husband. He kept reassuring me that it would happen at the right time! I remained silent during the waiting season for various reasons. First off, I am a pastor, my thinking then was that I had to be “strong”, and that I could not afford to be vulnerable as a woman of faith. Secondly, I have friends who are single and trusting God to get married and also those that are married and trusting God to have their own children, I felt that it would be inconsiderate and I should just be content with my first two girls. Lastly, I didn’t want to raise any alarms by informing my family members. I was hurting and discouraged, but I chose to hold on to God’s Word even if it seemed like there was a delay.
My spiritual parents came for a visit during this time and they asked when we wanted to have our next child, I told them that we were ready! They both smiled and said it was a done deal. I was about to tell them that we’d be trying for sometime and I was worried but the Holy Spirit checked me and I decided to be quiet. In the past, whenever my spiritual parents said anything about children I was either pregnant or got pregnant shortly after. This time around I did not think much of it.
A few weeks after their visit, my second daughter kept pointing at my belly while saying “baby”. She said it over and over again but I kept brushing it off. And then I missed my period later on that month, at first I thought that it was just late as I had been under alot of stress. I informed my husband and he felt the same way. So we decided wait it out until the end of the month. By the end of the month, my period was ‘no call, no show’ so we decided to schedule a doctor’s appointment.
We got to the doctor and we explained our suspicions. The doctor asked if we had taken a home pregnancy test, we told her no and she was surprised. I have no idea why we did not take a home pregnancy test, I think that I was just in denial after waiting for so long. She proceeded to administer the test and it was POSITIVE!!! My second born was right! To top it off, I was eight weeks pregnant! Which means, I was already pregnant when my spiritual parents came to visit. No wonder why the Holy Spirit nudged me to shut up!
At times, we find ourselves longing for what we already have. We worry about what have not manifested physically when we have access to the source in the realm of reality. If you engage the source by faith, you’ll enjoy the results of what you’ve believed. I pray for anyone currently in one waiting room or the other, I pray that God will grant you the desires of your heart. I want to pray for those who are trusting God for children specifically may God surprise you! May he give you double for your trouble! He will make you a joyful mother/father of children in the name of Jesus.
I will continue to share about my third pregnancy in my next post! Please stay tuned!
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