Baby Kate Makes 8

  A bit of post history first is probably best.  I've always wanted a big family- I love children!  I never really thought I'd make it to 6 kids though.  (That's like the new 12 these days).  I think I could have been content with four, but ever since I was pregnant with my fourth I have had a constant-nagging- feeling that I still had 2 more babies that needed to come to my family.  So for the last 5 yrs. I have thought about and prayed daily about getting these babies here. I have difficult pregnancies-my body seems to malfunction.  My first two babies (Kaden & Kale) came at term with a little bed rest.  My third baby(Kam) was born at 28 weeks.  The only real reason that can be identified behind it was that I was carrying a lot of extra amniotic fluid and it was too much for my body to handle.  Kam was born on Sept. 9th, 2005.  He weighed 2.11 lbs. and stayed in the NICU for eight weeks.  He was our little miracle baby and has no resulting problems from his premature birth.  At that point Josh and I were very weary of having more kids because of the chances of premature birth again, but I still didn't have that feeling that we were finished.  So I got an IUD(birth control) to pass some time until we were ready to make that decision.  Close to 3 yrs. had passed when I started getting that "Mommy Intuition" that there was another baby that needed to come.  I prayed a lot about it and talked to Josh about it, but he wasn't ready yet.  Within the month I found out I was pregnant with the IUD still in place (1% chance of that happening).  I felt it was Heavenly Father's way of saying "I told you it was time."  That pregnancy was absolutely perfect with no problems whatsoever.  I was on a new medicine that I took shots with at the end of my pregnancy called Progesterone that seemed to do the trick.  I also tend to make deals with my Father in Heaven and I told him if this pregnancy had complications I'm done, but if it doesn't than I'll have more.  He kept his end of the deal...  I also had a dream while I was pregnant with Kinnli that we still had 2 more babies that needed to be in our family.  It took us a bit longer to decide to have the 5th baby- almost 4 yrs., but I knew it needed to happen and had that constant feeling always at the back of my mind. Josh just needed a lot of prodding from me:)  So I had a perfect pregnancy with Kennadi (I'll tell you right now though- I'm not a rock star pregnant woman, I still get pretty miserable, sick, fat, etc...  but I'm truly grateful to be able to carry my babies!)  Being pregnant is just something I don't enjoy.  Everyday of my pregnancy with Kennadi and every day since I felt the strong presence of this sixth baby-very anxious to come down!  After having Kennadi- I did not look forward to being pregnant again, but I wanted to plan for this last little gift.  Josh and I weren't trying to get pregnant, but I had told him how I felt again- we were just in the process of trying to make that decision.  But within a couple weeks we had news that we were expecting again- a little sooner than anticipated.  I've always been worried that I would just keep having the desire to have more kids or I wouldn't have that confirmation that I'm done.  But as soon as I saw the pregnancy test was positive I had such a peaceful feeling come over me that this was it -I was done.  I knew this baby needed to come to our family and our family would finally be complete!   (Only 12 yrs. later and 6 of those yrs.  spent being pregnant:)