For those of you who regularly read this blog you’ll know that we’ve been trying for a child for some time now and this year, well last year, our prayers and the prayers of many others had been answered, my wife Hannah became pregnant with our first. Our child is healthy in all the ways apart from her lungs, one of them is tumorous, which is not good. I wrote about this in the last post and in this post we have some updates.

As I write this post my wife is 27 weeks pregnant and our child still has the tumour, in fact, it’s getting bigger, it’s the size of a golf ball at the moment. This is mostly what we both think, pray, and worry about during these lockdown times. We’re currently waiting on the decisions of healthcare professionals but we’ve heard there are two possible options in our scenario. An operation in the womb (which is fairly risky), or an operation outside of the womb straight after our child is born. We genuinely don’t know what option they will go for but we both want the tumour out as quickly as possible so their lungs will develop properly and increase the possibility of them breathing straight away after birth.

We’ve seen scans and been given measurements of the tumour, the more we see it the more worried we get and reading posts or articles of children who have not survived because of problems with their lungs doesn’t fill us with hope, but we still have it. We’re continuously grateful for those who are caring and praying for us, our friends, family members, and our church family. It’s easy to think of the worst-case scenario but we believe in a God who can and has done the impossible. We don’t know what His plan is for our child’s life but we’re trusting in Him through this incredibly tough time.