WE’RE PREGNANT!!!
Here she/he is, at 10 weeks, 2 days old. The first photo of the inside of my tummy! And look! Someone’s in there! Snuggled in quite happily and waiting for more food.
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we are now officially 12 weeks pregnant and are confident that all is well and our first ever baby is due on August 5 2007!!!
Here’s a beautiful story to go with the image you can see in front of you…
On November 3rd, 2006 Tim and I were at an Ellel Conference in Bath, UK. We were in a time of beautiful worship and I was kneeling down, when God spoke to me quite clearly that He had a gift for me. I sensed in my spirit to hold out my hands together and cupped, as if receiving a small, precious thing. I saw in my hands a glowing ball of light and God asked me if I would receive it. I then felt to kind of deposit it into my belly (where I believe our spirit is) area and felt a promise that I would ‘give birth to it’ at the right time. I assumed it was some kind of spiritual gift, even though nothing had happened like that before. The following day this baby was conceived. Of course, I didn’t know that until much later on when we checked our diaries with the midwife. Tim and I both believe that God has given us this gift and that it’s the right time because its His timing.
It will mean some changes in our plans, but nothing could compare to this privilege anyway.
I have been pretty healthy so far, my only real issue being that I wanted to tell everyone straight away and having a very wobbly start to the mornings. I feel very blessed because I know some of my friends had horrible sickness (thinking particularly of Ann and Maggie) but then they had beautiful babies who they wouldn’t swap for the world. I’ve had to become more disciplined about food- always being a very random eater- and I feel much like a cow, grazing all day. I wonder what my classmates think of me pulling out my little packed snacks all through the day…probably itching to pray with me for my eating issues!
The leadership team here at Ellel know, and their response was really lovely. Of course, everyone wants to pray a blessing over the baby, and I’m not gonna say no to that! It has changed the things I can/cant do as part of the ministry team because first and foremost they want to protect the spirit of the baby. That means I can’t minister on healing retreats or deliverance workshops or conferences where people might need deep level prayer. Because you never know what you will encounter until you start to pray with someone, its wisdom for me to be involved in another way. I can be in the drama team on church visits and on the intercession team which is cool and something I really wanted to be involved in anyway.
So when we come home in March, I’ll be 6 months pregnant, and hopefully will have that ‘glow’ everyone tells you about and not the pale, green, complexion I have now!
Clothes will be an issue soon, so all of my recently pregnant friends- DO NOT THROW ANYTHING AWAY!
Here in the UK they give you a big bundle of free stuff when you’re pregnant , and that includes a pretty comprehensive book covering conception, pregnancy, birth and aftercare, and you get these Mum To Be packs for free from the chemist right up until the baby is 6 months old! That’s not a bad system. I just don’t know if I’ll be able to bring any of it home with me! I have been reading everything and Tim has been right there with me, reminding me to eat, take my folic acid and drink loads of water. He has been great. He was so cute after seeing the scan, I thought he would burst he was grinning so much, and when he went back to work he could get nothing done for the rest of the day!
I have my second scan end of March so will post that too, along with if it’s a boy or a girl if they can tell me that by then.
Love to you all…Thanks for reading right to the bottom…
Phoebe, Tim and …little Bakker xx
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