We're having a baby!
A LIFE UPDATE FROM THE WINKELMANNS
We are overjoyed to be expecting a tiny little one and we cannot wait to welcome him into our home and our world this summer! I’m a little over halfway through pregnancy at this point and it’s just starting to feel like reality and ahh we can’t wait.
When we found out we were pregnant, the initial reaction was pure joy and thankfulness. I could not believe it and kept wondering if there was really a little baby in me. We had been praying and longing for a baby for a while so we weren’t surprised or shocked necessarily— more just incredible relieved and thankful.
I was heading out of town for the weekend and wasn’t going to see Grant for a few days so I knew that morning I needed to take a test. I kind of had a feeling, but also had the same feelings months before so I tried to keep my hopes down. It was probably about 6am when I took the test— the best way to start my day probably ever haha. People always ask me how I told Grant and how he reacted and while it was so sweet and he was so happy, he was also half asleep, just awoken by me waving a pregnancy test in his face haha. It was really a sweet moment just us two getting to soak it all in.
That day I went to my friend’s bachelorette party and got to tell two of my longest and closest friends that I was pregnant. It felt so weird to say and talk about it out loud so soon after finding out, but I don’t regret it at all. It was so special to share with them in the joy of just finding out about baby Wink.
The following weeks and months were so sweet getting to slowly tell the people we love and who have been praying alongside us for this gift of life. We were able to tell both our family’s over Thanksgiving break which felt like such good timing.
The timing of it all is just good. It’s funny because for months I felt like the timing I had in my head was good and was right. But God had other plans and I’m really thankful that his timing wins.
Something about pregnancy that has been so beautiful to me is reading about how baby’s develop. I don’t have much education in that area so a lot of this is very new to me. I could not believe that while the baby was the size of a grain of rice, it’s heart was already beating. Just seeing how such a tiny little thing has a whole heart and lungs and organs is the most beautiful and miraculous thing I’ve ever witnessed. I’m truly just in awe of the way God chose to form and grow baby’s in their mother’s womb and getting to be a part of such a beautiful process is the sweetest gift. I’m so thankful to be this little guys home for the next four months and then welcome him into our arms this July.
The miracle of this little life is not lost on me— and I don’t want it to ever be. We know that for many, these announcements can be both joyful and deeply difficult at the same time. For all those who are in a season of waiting, longing or loss, we see you and we love you.
