On the 13th of Jan 05, I had a routine blood test done, to check over my health, after seeing the doc to talk to her about wanting to fall pregnant.

She had told me to see her in 2 wks time, as she was going on holidays, but on the night of the 14th of Jan 05, she called me (just before going to church), to give me some bad news (I knew already that it was bad news otherwise she wouldn’t have called on a Friday night).

She announced that my results showed that I had Polycistic Ovarian Syndrome and that according to the results, I had highly elevated levels of cysts on both of my ovaries and that indicated that it would be highly difficult for me to fall pregnant if I could fall at all, then she started talking about what treatments I would need to start going through after more confirmation tests, then worst case scenario, trying to conceive via IVF.

I had totally switched off after that and was devastated. I started to cry and scream out to God that it was not possible, that I was always meant to be a mother and that this had to be wrong. I cried some more and more, then called our Pastor for prayer, I wasn’t thinking at the time, as he would have already been in church, but luckily for me he was still at home, I told him what I had been told and he said to come to church and he would pray for me.

Some of the people in the church prayed for me that night and I knew that others would be praying that weekend and an amazing sense of peace came over me and for some reason I just knew that everything would be ok and that God would heal me.

Two weeks later I went for more tests, blood tests and one ultrasound. I asked the synographer if there was any chance that my doc read the results wrong or if the results could have been wrong themselves and she said no.

Then the most amazing, miraculous words came out of her mouth, ” I don’t really know why you are here, I know what the bloods showed, but I’m confused as you don’t have ANY cysts on either of your ovaries, but you do have an egg, just sitting there to be fertilised!” She went on to make a joke that I should hurry up and go home and let my husband know!!!!!

On Monday the 31st of Jan 05, at 4:30pm, I had an appointment with my doc to receive all my results, she was an hour late and by the time I got in there I was nervous, but knew that everything was ok as I knew that I no longer had any cysts.

The look on her face as she viewed my results for the first time was priceless, she was in shock, and so was I as the results were even better than expected, she announced that I was pregnant!!!!

I was overcome with so much joy and thankfulness to God that I burst into tears.

I knew that God would heal me, it happened much quicker than I ever imagined, but that is the miracle of his healing power. It just goes to show that God hears your every cry, every call out to him, every prayer, and that he will answer them, in his timing and in his way, we just have to have faith and trust in him.

Gabriel was our first little miracle and Abbey was our second and however much love we have for them we will never compare to how much more love Father God has for them and all of us!!!!!

Vanessa M.