One year and one day ago, I had laparoscopic surgery that revealed I had endometriosis.

All the endo was excised and we then had to decide if we wanted to continue on with another IUI or move on to IVF.

With it being very close to the holidays, we decided to take a break and continue with whatever treatment we decided to do after the New Year.

November was spent recovering from the surgery while December was spent praying for a Christmas Miracle.

We had decided to go ahead and do the Clomid Challenge Test in December. My RE had told me doing the test would better help him know if we should do some more IUIs or go on to IVF.

Being on Clomid, I had two follicles that month and we prayed that God would just do a miracle and allow us to conceive!

He did a miracle alright – just not in the way we prayed! His Plans are so much BIGGER than ours!

On Sunday, December 8th, 2008, we were sitting in Sunday School listening to prayer requests. A couple in the class mentioned the birth mother of their son was pregnant again and they needed prayer as they decided if they were going to adopt this new baby as well.

As I sat listening, immediately something washed over my entire body. I had to literally hold back the tears as my heart silently cried out, “I WANT THAT BABY!”

It was totally unexpected and even as I sat there I questioned my own self! Adoption had never been in my plans.

Over the course of the next few weeks, God continued to work on both of our hearts and we became extremely open to the idea of adoption.

On January 10th, 2009, we went to the home of the couple who had shared the prayer request to talk to them about adoption and, more specifically, the adoption agency they had used.

We left their house that night knowing we would most likely adopt. When we got home that evening a poem popped into my head and I wrote it down:

Our miracle has come,

Not in my womb, but in our hearts

We are going to adopt!

Baby is on the way,

She will be here in the month of May!

That poem could have only come from God, because at that time, I had no clue that we would indeed become parents to a little girl, in May, through the miracle of adoption!

At the time I wrote that poem, we both still felt like our time with infertility treatments wasn’t over yet.

However, on January 12th, I decided on my own to go to the adoption agency and ask for a packet to fill out. I looked up the directions to get to the adoption agency on my own and set out to find it.

I am typically not very good at finding places I’ve never been to before. But God had His hand on me and literally walked me to the doorstep of the adoption agency!

I found the place I had googled fairly easily. Except when I went inside, the lady at the front desk told me the adoption agency had just moved out of that building that very day! She gave me verbal directions to their new location. I had no clue how I was going to find this place.

But God lead me there because His purpose always prevails.

About to give up after driving up and down the same road numerous times, I finally saw what the lady at the old place had told me to look for. I turned in and discovered a new problem.

There were two rows of office buildings. I had no clue where the agency was as there was no sign out yet since they had just moved that day!

I decided to park my car, get out and start walking.

And wouldn’t you know, I walked right to the adoption agency’s door!

The secretary gave me the adoption packet and I went on my way.

That night (January 12th) we started filling the packet out but as we started our first IVF cycle, the packet got placed on the back burner because it was too much to focus on at one time.

About the time we went to talk to the couple about adoption, we learned that I had failed the Clomid Challenge Test with an FSH level of 13.

We felt our focus now needed to be on our “window of opportunity” to have at least one biological child.

God opened the door to IVF and we walked through.

Little did we know through that IVF cycle, God was setting the stage to perform a miracle …

The Miracle of Little Bug!

to be continued…

- Elaine