{"id":367,"date":"2011-11-01T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlifedesign.wordpress.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2016-08-18T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:11:28","slug":"note-on-nathanaels-arrival-102211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/01\/note-on-nathanaels-arrival-102211\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Nathanael’s Arrival – 10\/22\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday – Going Home Day!
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Nathanael was back in our room at 6:30 and had passed all his tests with flying colors but the nurse had to come and get him again around 7:45 for his circumcision procedure and we really hated to see him go for that.\u00a0 I think Tony and I both shed some tears over it.\u00a0 After being stuck so much it was just difficult to let him go again.\u00a0 He returned back to our room around 9:30.\u00a0 We had gotten the final word that we could go home from all the Doctors that afternoon so we began the check out process and getting ready.\u00a0 Early that morning Tony and I had a conversation about all that we had been through on this journey to having children that began a number of years ago.\u00a0 We talked about all the fears, personal issues, doubts, questions and wondering about infertility.\u00a0 Both of us knew that it had all been worth it \u2013 worth going down some difficult paths, facing fears, and plunging to new depths of trust with God.\u00a0 We wept tears of joy as we celebrated God\u2019s faithfulness.<\/p>\n

Arriving home with a baby was quite surreal.\u00a0 We had the best homecoming.\u00a0 It was awesome to celebrate what God had done with our family.\u00a0 Later that evening naps were in order for everyone all around.<\/p>\n

So, a journey that began with many questions, fears and insecurities has ended with a deeper trust in Abba Father, an even deeper love for my Man and a joy unspeakable for our little Nathanael Douglas Dodd.\u00a0 Thank you, Father for the gift given by You straight to us. For that is exactly what the name Nathanael means, a gift \u201cgiven by God\u201d.<\/p>\n

To all of our family and friends that have stood with us over the last several days and weeks – Thank You!\u00a0 Thank you for your prayers, support and words of encouragement.\u00a0 You have played an invaluable part of this journey with us and we are forever grateful for each of you.\u00a0 You are a treasure to us!<\/p>\n

Dana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday – Going Home Day! Nathanael was back in our room at 6:30 and had passed all his tests with flying colors but the nurse had to come and get him again around 7:45 for his circumcision procedure and we really hated to see him go for that.\u00a0 I think Tony and I both shed some tears over it.\u00a0 After being stuck so much it was just difficult to let him go again.\u00a0 He returned back to our room around 9:30.\u00a0 We had gotten the final word that we could go home from all the Doctors that afternoon so we began the check out process and getting ready.\u00a0 Early that morning Tony and I had a conversation about all that we had been through on this journey to having children that began a number of years ago.\u00a0 We talked about all the fears, personal issues, doubts, questions and wondering about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}