A Mystery that is Called Pregnancy

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I consider pregnancy as a mystery. Some get pregnant in a heartbeat and at the other side of the coin, there are those who try for years and years but still don't get that two parallel lines in a pregnancy test. Despite millions of information, books and researches about how to get pregnant, despite the expensive fertility treatments, there are still couples who struggle with conceiving.


I know a couple who was married around the same time as I did. For years, they struggled to conceive. Both husband and wife knew that having a baby would be a miracle for them because: 

1. Wife had a very irregular menstruation (when she did get her period, she would have spotting that would last a day only).
2. Wife had one healthy ovary and one dried up ovary (sorry, I'm not sure what the correct term was for that condition. All I knew was that the ovary was dried up or "payat" was the term they used.)
3. Husband believed he had a problem with his sperm.
4. They didn't have money for treatments and expensive consultations.

MYSTERY 1

Four years into their marriage, they adopted a baby girl from a provincial hospital. Wife was visiting a relative in the hospital when she had a feeling of asking one of the nurses if they had an abandoned baby in the nursery. 

There was this baby whom the mother was willing to give up. She had her own family in a province in Visayas and she didn't want to bring her new baby there. Her family didn't know she had a baby. After discussing the adoption, Wife got the baby after a few days. 

Fast forward today. That baby is their bundle of joy and as the Wife said, the baby turned their worlds around. 

And...Wife is now pregnant! Can you believe it?!

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MYSTERY 2

Another younger couple I knew were trying to get pregnant since their wedding late 2014. I'm not sure if they sought treatment from fertility experts.

Last month, they were surprised when Wife didn't get a visit from Aunt Flo. Upon checking with their OB, they confirmed that they were indeed pregnant after seeing that wee little heartbeat from the ultrasound monitor.

They were ecstatic and they informed immediate members of the family. The Husband sent a text message to his older brother that he got somebody pregnant. Older brother initially thought it was with another woman and castigated him only to realize after a few minutes that Husband meant getting his Wife pregnant. Heehee.

I was so happy when I heard the news.

Then, a few days later, I learned that the Wife had a silent miscarriage. The baby lost its heartbeat at 6 weeks.

I was so sad for them. I couldn't help but recall what happened to me in 2015. It was like reliving the feelings of despair, anger and grief.

As you can see, bringing another life into this world is a mystery. Some women are fortunate to conceive without any hardship, some conceive without knowing it, and some, like me, still wait for that fateful day when the Lord will open their wombs.