The story of Adele...

Adele turns 6 tomorrow and I thought it would be appropriate since I just started this blog to share the story of how she came to be..... the story begins far before September 13th, 2001 which is the day we found out I was pregnant.  We started trying to get pregnant about 16 months before that.  We had been trying for about 6 months when my doctor put me on clomid, a fertility drug.  So for the next year I made several visits a month to the dr. for blood tests, a pregnancy test and check up.  Each time with a negative pregnancy test and an even more negative attitude (it is hard to be so honest about yourself and your actions).  During this time my best friend, Tess had gotten pregnant.  Honestly, this was also very hard for me and it put a strain on our relationship because I wasn't at a place that I could enjoy it with her.  After about 12 months of trying my dr. told me that he wanted to do surgery to find out why I wasn't getting pregnant. And so he did and it was concluded that I have endometriosis.  So during the surgery they "got rid" of the endometriosis that was growing to improve my chances of getting pregnant.  During this time I wasn't really trusting God for his will and his timing in my life.  I was focused on WHY God, all these other people are pregnant, even people who don't want to be pregnant.  I just didn't understand. 

 My dr. had said that we would try for 3 months to get pregnant after the surgery and if I still wasn't pregnant after that he would want to do "artificial insemination".  So, the first month after surgery I still wasn't pregnant and I was sitting in the exam room waiting for him to come back in and I just let go and completely surrendered to God.  My prayer to God that day was that I wanted his will and his timing.    A few minutes later the dr. came in and asked if I wanted to go ahead with the insemination even though it was only the first month of trying after the surgery not the third.  Of course I said yes.  So, on August 31st, 2001, I had the artificial  insemination (for those of you who do quick math you have already figured out I got pregnant that month).  But let me back up a little.  I had been reading in James where it talks about having the elders of your church pray for you and I told Jason that was something I wanted to do.  Up until this point we had shared that we were trying to get pregnant with only a few people. So, we went to our deacons and they prayed over us. I will never forget sitting in that room while those men laid hands on me and prayed for God's will and also asked God to "breathe life into me".  Even now as I am typing tears have come into my eyes.  That was the first day of my pregnancy.  I think that is so amazing.  But that isn't all.  I mentioned earlier that my best friend, Tess had gotten pregnant early on in the story and how it was a strain on our friendship because I was having a hard time .  Well, during this time she was so patient with me and constantly prayed for me. A true testimony of what the bible says a friend should be.  Well....isn't this just like God, Adele was born on Tess's birthday!  Yup, they share the birthday of May 3oth  (not the same year of course).  I felt like that was God saying to me that he was going to restore my friendship with her and that this "season" in our friendship had been for his purpose and glory.  Ok, I have one more thing that God did to show me that this was HIS timing, literally.  My best friend Tess is also a labor and delivery nurse and so she has a watch that she uses to know the "exact" time babies are born ( it is set with some clock somewhere or something like that) and on our wedding day she gave us a napkin where she had written "pronounced husband and wife at 2:41 pm".  Well, a couple of months after Adele's birth I found that napkin and I was floored because Adele had also been born also at 2:41 pm.  I know, WOW!  

So, Adele Dawes Sessoms was born on Thursday, May 30th at 2:41 pm at Heritage Hospital in Tarboro.  She weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz., was 22 inches long and had a head full of dark brown hair. Every inch of her was perfect!!!  We were absolutely beside ourselves with joy and thankfulness.  

I feel like God used all those things to say to me "I have a plan for you" just like in Jeremiah 29:11.  I guess I could have just trusted in that from the beginning (but what fun would there have been in that?).  I am so grateful to God for Adele and what he has shown me through her life already.  I still don't know "why" God had me wait to conceive and go through that process.  I do know that I wished I had behaved differently, I wished I had given God more glory during that time with my actions and totally trusted in him.  I am grateful for that lesson and for my precious daughter.  Did I mention that Adele turns 6 tomorrow and that my dearest friend Tess turns....29 (you're welcome Tess).