These are just the general blessings,
not the little ones that happen every day.
1) Our new baby, Lydia
2) The ability to get pregnant
3) Three other children
4) A supportive and loving husband
6) An amazing supportive church family
7) A wonderful family who are helping
us so much
8) The children being able to stay with
my family half the time and with me the other half.
9)Hospital care for Lydia
10) The hospital care being free
11) The government support for babies
and children
12) An amazing place to stay at while
Lydia is in hospital, with free melas, great play areas for the
children, and everything is nice, new, free, and very comfortable.
I could write a whole separate list
of blessings about this place!
13) Not much housework and cooking to
do at the moment :)
14) Lots of visitors
15) So many gifts we've been given
16) Not having to go to the hospital
overnight—being able to sleep all night.
Not normal when you have a new baby!
:)
17) Romans 8:28—the promise that God
is using this trial for our good
18) A new experience—seeing what
trials a lot of people are going through and meeting these people
19) Lydia's heart condition is fixable
20)It's not me in hospital!
Lydia is not aware of where she is
and won't remember it. Time would really drag if it was me on a
hospital bed.
21) Lydia is in hospital as a newborn
It would be much harder if she was
older or if it were one of my other children in hospital with a
health problem
22) I am healthy
23) All my other children were born
healthy
24) Time is flying while we're here
because of the busyness
25) The joy God gives in spite of what
we are going through
26) All the encouragement God gives in
His Word
27) God is near to the brokenhearted
28) God hears our prayers, but answers
with what is best and not necessarily with what we want and might
regret later
29) Knowing ahead of time that Lydia
has heart problems, so we could be a bit prepared
30) Feeding Lydia in the Nicu, I can
breastfeed without distractions from the other children etc.
31) I am able to stay over the road
from the hospital
I have talked to other mums from the
wellington area. Some of them have to take the bus and come for the
whole day. Others can't drive because of their c-sections and yet
need to get to the hospital every day. And others have to travel over
half an hour. I only have to run over the road!
32) The hospital is only 11/2 hours
from our home.
It's close enough for me to go home
for a day and for my husband to travel back and forth. Others here
live much further away.
33) Friends who have gone through
similar things
34) Lots of people here to talk with
who all have something in common with me—they have a baby in the
Nicu and they want to go home!
35) I can speak the same language as
the doctors and nurses.
I have seen 2 mums so far who don't
speak much English and can't communicate with the doctors and
nurses. Imagine that!
36)Lydia is number four
If I'd of had to stay in
hospital this long with my first one, I think I may have been very scared to
have more!
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you
1Thessalonians 5:18
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