Praying today, may it live to be a great saint, a light to the nations, the joy of your heart and comfort in old age. Prayers
Yay!! Congrats & super excited for you & your family. You'll be in my St Joseph Rosary which I'm trying to pray frequently. That St Joseph will take care of every families needs. Children are the biggest blessings & we need more in this world! So I will be begging God for another cute baby doll (funny, I nearly typed baby girl lol) for your family!!
Congratulations. I often wonder if God will do that for my new wife and I (guess I shouldn't call her new anymore, it has been almost 2 years already). We don't prevent in any manor not even NFP. I am almost 50 though and as I joke with God all the time with our 17, 15 and 13 year old kids, that I am much closer to the finish line than prepared to start all over, but His will be done. My wife is 41 so we do worry about complications if we were to get pregnant and she is a cancer survivor that went through radiation treatments, so who knows if even possible, but all is possible with God and we do trust in His plan over our own. Of course I would love love love the heck out of a new baby, but man, diapers and baby proofing and sleepless nights and the terrible 2's and 3's is so so so far in my past haha. What we do think though that would be wonderful is a baby between us would link our kids together. I have 2 from first marriages and she has 1. Having them be able to have a half brother sibling would bring them even closer together. Now they do act like blood siblings already with all the wonderful parenting joys that go into raising 3 teens!!!
Aww, I will pray you get to have a baby together! I'm 39, so not that far off from your wife, and I know of lots of women who had multiple babies in their 40s...all the way up to 48! I even heard of one woman who had her last at 52! Rare, but all things are possible with God.
Go easy on those prayers haha. I honestly am good with both scenarios. Starting all over or the light at the end of the tunnel and looking forward to grandbabies to spoil instead! I will share an interesting experience with God on all this. I was really struggling around this and would pray all the time that I trust in His will but you know my heart and this idea of starting over with a new baby is very hard for me to desire and accept. But I also know that whatever he decided even if it was to give us new life to take care of, that I would love and cherish that gift no matter what but again it was a struggle for my own selfish reasons. So, back in October, I was at a football game. When I went to the restroom, I heard a little boy talking to his father in the bathroom kind of learning the ropes. It truly touched my heart and I smiled and thought how nice that was. In that exact instant, I can't really explain other than this overwhelming energy zapped me and brought me to tears. It was so full of love and power and in that instant I just said, absolutely Father. Forget all my past talks with you. If you want me to be a father again, I will gladly accept it. I was so happy in that moment and I walked out of the restroom and you know how you mind begins to naturally question experiences and doubt them. So I was walking back to my seat and I just said to God, did I just make all that up? Did that really happen? BAM, He hit me again and the love and joy almost knocked me to the ground. So I have fully accepted what He wants to do. I don't know if that means he will grace us with a little boy (whose name will be Thomas Charles btw) or if He just gave me a huge test to have faith in Him and trust Him no matter what. Either way, I am good!
This gives me hope for my son & his new wife (all the way from Scotland). They've been married nearly a year, and are having tests to find out why she can't fall pregnant. She'll be turning 40yo this year .. her mother was a Catholic but stopped practising when she married a non-Catholic .. and now her daughter has married my son, whose a Catholic. God works in mysterious ways Can you please keep them in your Rosary?
Congratulations, Purple flower, my daughter-in-law suffered several miscarriages, but for the current pregnancy, she was spotting, but her Dr. prescribed progesterone and since taking it, she has vastly improved. I will keep you in my prayers.
