Baby Pear is keeping us busy...

Baby Pear is 11 weeks today. Baby’s 2 month check up was yesterday, which we are 2 weeks late for due to her being so sick, too sick to vaccinate at the actual 2 month mark.

The great news is that she has made a full recovery from the meningitis, can do all the developmental things and is growing wonderfully with her height being in the 95 percentile and her weight in the 90th, which is stunning considering how sick she was just a couple short weeks ago.

The bad news is that there is a clunk in the hip test, so we are scheduled for a hip ultrasound to check for hip displaysia Monday at 3, back at the hospital. Apparently it can show up later and not just at birth, which is why they keep testing for it.

It just feels like way too much. She is 11 weeks old and has had to have a heart echogram in the hospital when she was born, was very sick with a cold, was hospitalized with meningitis, and now this. With Miss Pear’s heart thing thrown in for good measure. It is just way too much.

I don’t know how parents can turn their backs on modern medicine for their kids. Everything we are facing can be fixed with modern medicine to give our girls a healthy life. I read about parents who have lost their children by refusing modern medicine and I just don’t understand, I know it is an issue of faith, but I just don't understand. We pray for our girls and their healing, but also use the resources He has given us in tandem with prayer. They are not in competition with each other.

And I most certainly don’t know how people face life without God. Without Him I think I would have curled up into a little ball long ago. Even though this is all very hard on a mommy's heart, I am confident in God.

And on this Thanksgiving Eve I am so thankful for our little family, that we belong to the Lord and that He will never lose us, misplace us, or forget about us, we are His. He is very faithful and will see us through.