Right before we started the IVF treatment, some good friends of ours gave us a very thoughtful gift. I am sure when they took time to make us the gift, they probably didn't think how much it would really mean to us and how we would use the gift. The gift consisted of perfectly chosen bible verses written on pieces of paper to encourage us as I was injected with medicine through needles, going to check the progress of my eggs every other day, having my eggs retracted, having our embryos conceived, having the perfect, little embryo implanted, and finally waiting the long 2 weeks to find out if the whole process worked. Every day, Matthew and I would take a bible verse, read it, and then tape it to the nursery door. The door became some what of a place where Matt and I would tape things up to encourage us through out my pregnancy.
The items on the door consisted of more than just pieces of paper with Bible verses on them, but also the place where we taped up her first ultrasound pictures. The pictures include her embryo (which is basically an arrow pointing to where she was implanted), her amniotic sack (she was still too small to be seen in an ultrasound), and finally her "teddy gram" photo (her first picture is of when she was the size of a teddy gram, so that is how we refer to it). Another object, we included on the door is our positive pregnancy test. It may be creepy that a pee stick is taped to the door, but it holds such encouragement to me specifically, as it was the first positive test I had ever seen in the 2 1/2 years I had been waiting. To finally see a positive test after so many negatives is celebration and reason to hang on our door.
The picture below is of the door, pretty early on into our pregnancy, with most of the bible verses, pregnancy text, and her embryo photo.
I obviously am not keeping all these items that have been our encouragement on her nursery door. I decided I have to do something significant with the Bible verses. This past month, I have been heavy into the nesting part of pregnancy and took a lot of time to decorate and make her nursery my "dream" nursery (Blog Post coming soon with pictures of the finished nursery). I decided that part of the nursery decor should be a wall hanging with the bible verses that encouraged Matthew and I.
The wall hanging was made using an art canvas, Modge Podge, and scrapbooking stickers. I wanted, "For With God Nothing Shall be Impossible" as the focal point because that will be the life verse for her baby dedication as it was a huge part of the day she was implanted and an encouragement to me as I waited to see if I was pregnant or not.
27 days. I can't believe in 27 days the prayer and dream I have had for a long time will finally come true.
