Monday, August 27, 2018

Difficult pregnancy turned into joy

I would like to share my testimony :
Fear not!...
Praise God for giving me such a challenging phase to share this testimony of my pregnancy. My 2017 promise was Heb 6:14, so we were earnestly praying for a baby and by Dec somehow had a gut instinct that I was pregnant.
Due to frequent travel and sleepless nights in Dec, on new year's eve I ended up running a high fever and fatigue. In doubt we checked and I was tested positive for pregnancy. The doctor suggested it may not be viral and asked to give blood test. I was tested positive for typhoid and admitted the next day. I was administered mild dosages and was told to wait on the baby till the fever is gone and do a scan to check the survival rate.
Along with this it was found I had type 2 diabetes. It became a heredity risk. I was asked to start insulin.
By God's grace fever came down in 2 days and my first scan miraculously turned out normal with baby placed well in the uterus with good heart rate.
Initial 4 weeks were difficult with sugar and typhoid diet conflicting as neither sweet nor diet food was controlling my nausea and heartburn. I used to puke like 6 times a day, cough n sneeze very frequently causing bad abdominal pain. My only consolation during tearful nights used to be this year promise, Fear not.(Exo 14:13)
In office siting billing issue they forced me to come join. Docs suggested bed rest for a month. I had to go as they didn't approve my leaves. Which caused a lot of stress with officially trying to explain my health condition.
At home not being able to explain the mood swings made things worse. So I decided to take a break and come to mom's house and ended up bleeding one fine day out of nowhere. Doc just told me to calm down, pray and relax, put me on injections for 3 days. Told to check baby's heart beat. By God's grace baby was fine again with the cervix not ruptured. However I had spottings for a while so took two months leave with injections taken every 15 days to strengthen the uterus.
The NT scan confirmed no abnormalities. Which encouraged me to stop fretting and trust God more.
I started going to work by April and It's a blessing that my location manager understood the situation n moved me to bench with minimal work and a desktop to be seated.
My target scan suggested a healthy active baby with the right weight. But due to the underlying emotional stress, my sugar was never coming down.
I couldn't get my maid come on time and maintain good diet. Incidents like the building collapse made it fluctuate even more bad.
By 8th month doc advised us clearly that Ill have to opt for cesarean due to high insulin levels. The whole family was upset over it and I just prayed God to give me wisdom to understand his plan. I was constantly arguing with God asking him a word to tell if c-sec is his will cuz Bible never speaks of unnatural delivery like that.
One of my Sunday school aunty had told my mother few weeks earlier to claim Isa 66:7 for my delivery and pray over it. That word shook me and spoke to me clearly. Still exercised and did a lot of manual work to see if normal delivery is possible. But by 37th week, my ctg was not showing satisfying fetal response rate which is essential to induce delivery. I made up my mind and 20th aug went for surgery directly claiming the word. By the grace of God our baby boy was born. Doc told us it was the wise choice to do csec as baby's head was high and didn't come down at all, waiting for normal could've been risky. Baby's sugar level turned out normal and though a lill underweight, he is doing well.
All through the 9 and half months struggle it was only God's hands and word that lead me. And I know He will continue to do so.
Kindly keep us in prayers for good health and strength.

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