2011 - A Year for Babies

Not only will 2011 bring me my own child but it brought another VERY special baby into my life...my baby horse Pj!! My parents gave me the gift of breeding my horse for my college graduation. My Dad and I had always talked about doing this and it was our dream to have a baby foal one day. Well things were pretty tough, it was def. easier said than done!!! It took us 3 years to get her pregnant. But FINALLY on our last try it worked!! When Ben and I got back from our honeymoon I found out the great news! We were going to have a baby horse!!! During Maggie's 11 month pregnancy my Dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I thought surely he would be around to see our dream turn into reality. That was not to be the case. A couple of months before he passed away I told him I wanted him to name this baby. He said "Megan this is your baby, you name it." I said "Dad this is OUR baby horse and I would love nothing more than you to name it." So he thought about it for awhile and about a month before he passed I got the call. My mom and dad had just got done with a doctors appt and the news wasn't good. My mom called and said "Megan, your dad has thought of a name...He wants to name the baby "Donnie's Pride & Joy". He said he named it after you and your sister because you 2 have always been the Pride and Joy of his life." I'm not sure how she could get the words out because I sure couldn't. All I could do was sit there and cry and think that that was the perfect name. That is why mom called to tell me because my dad would have never been able to get the words out. So after my dad passed in December the anticipation of this baby grew larger and larger. Finally after countless sleepless nights waiting for a phone call from the barn it was time!!! The labor and delivery was not exactly what we had hoped for. Not only was Pj not in the right position, the placenta was coming first which is his only source of oxygen. My baby was suffocating. I am truly blessed and very lucky to have such amazing people around me who knew EXACTLY what to do. Without Satawa (lady who runs the barn and my best buddy) my baby would have died. With a quick readjustment and a lot of pulling we got him out safe and sound!!!!! He was here and the dream had come true...It was a bitter sweet night. I wish so bad my dad could have been there in person to see this baby enter the world, but I felt like I got a part of my dad back when Pj got here. He is a very special boy and I always smile to myself when I look at him and remember the amazing man who gave him his name.

Donnie's Pride & Joy
Born May 6, 2011
9:20pm

Cleaning out Pj's noes, mouth, & ears

Maggie and I checking out our new baby!

First steps

Mom and baby the next morning

First trot steps!

Time for a nap

Baby Daves

Here are the first pictures of our Baby!!

 Baby D @ 6wks

Baby D @ 12wks.
Cant wait to find out what we are having!!!

Our Little Miracle...

Finding out we were pregnant was a total shock, even to this day sometimes it doesnt seem real. To those of you who dont know, Benjamin had cancer about 4 years ago. He beat it, Thank the Lord but we were told last year by our fertility doctor that due to the radiation and chemotherapy we had less than 1% chance to conceive a child naturally and probably would have to go through Invetro Fertilization (IVF) in order to have kids. This was def not the news we were hoping for. So we talked about it and just decided that if we are supposed to have a baby we would and if not in about 5 years we would try IVF. Well 5 months later and not even really "trying" we are pregnant! What an amazing miracle!!! I am still in such disbelief and we are SO  thankful!!! So cool to see God at work in your life! So Ben and I decided to keep it a secret for awhile until I could get to the doctor and make sure everything was ok etc. Two days after finding out I was pregnant I was talking to my sister on the phone and I just had a gut feeling she was pregnant too. I asked her, she of course denied it but I just knew! She finally told me that she was and they were also keeping it a secret until they knew everything was ok with their baby. I was absolutely estatic!!! I broke my news to her and we both were crying, laughing, squealing etc!! She is only about 10 days ahead of me with the due date of November 9, 2011! How fun to be pregnant with your sister!!! We both knew that my Dad had a hand in this. He knew my mom would need something to keep her busy when he was gone and what a perfect gift :) So we decided that Easter would be the perfect time to tell everyone.

I made Easter eggs for our family and close friends. Inside I had special M&M's made that said "Baby Daves" on one side and our due date "Nov. 21, 2011" on the other along with our first ultrasound picture. The tags on the eggs say "Miracles Happen to those who Believe", how perfect :) All of their faces were priceless when they opened the eggs! It was a very special Easter this year!



Welcome!

Welcome to the Daves blog! I've had some friends and family ask me if I was going to start a blog now that we are expecting, I thought about it and thought "sure why not?!" It will be a fun way I think to keep track of my the pregnancy and life of our new baby. Im not really good at scrap booking etc. so this is as good as it gets! I love reading everyone elses blogs and now that I have something "blog-worthy" to write about I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon too :) Hope you all enjoy the happenings with the Daves clan, you never know what will happen next!!!