The Miracle of the Bottle and a Feisty Baby

SO I am so excited about what God has done in my life (and Sam's) I just have to share. Sam has not yet successfully taken a FULL bottle in his 7 months of life! He would always just drink 1-2 oz. and then scream bloody murder NON-STOP until I finally came home to relieve usually my mother-in-law! Not only was it getting old, but I needed a solution within two weeks! I started back to work and each shift I've gone in has been totally stressful because the day care provider has had to hold him off and let him cry until I get to my break and can come nurse him. Each day I went in I was so stressed out about when he would need to nurse and if the timing would work out. Also we are going to Kyle's wedding over Labor Day weekend and Matt really wanted to leave the kids, but we can't if Sam won't TAKE A BOTTLE! It finally occurred to me after I felt I had exhausted all options that the one option I had not even visited on this issue was... GOD! I had not even been praying about it! I realized I was talking horizontally about it a lot, but never vertically. So I decided the next day (yesterday)I was going to hit it hard with Sam offering only bottles and pumping all day (which I loathe). I prayed about it that week and a lot the night before the big day. I woke up Thursday with confidence that the Lord WILL provide and DOES answer our prayers, but nervous because of the risk in pumping all my milk and if it doesn't go well (as it never has) having nothing in me to fall back on! I just kept praying...

...I went to yoga and our focus was PRAYER and SURRENDER! Living Streams is honored to have 24/7 prayer at our church this week in the chapel where we meet for yoga. On the alter was a big wooden cross with pinned prayers all over it. All during class we just kept our focus on the concerns of our heart and OFFERING them to God, surrendering them over to him, throwing them off our shoulders. Alisa also talked about her kids being so precious to her, but that they are not really hers, they're HIS! I thought of course of Sam. Why have I held onto this Lord? DO I trust you? REALLY? You CAN do this! You are capable! So I threw it off my shoulders and onto the cross where I pinned my prayer.

...I got out of class and called my mom where Sam was supposed to be napping but when I left him he was screaming. She called me back after Sam woke up to report that dadadadadad (drum roll) HE TOOK THE ENTIRE BOTTLE!!! ALL 6 OZ!!! I got tears in my eyes! This was GOD! Nothing was different except the prayers of me, my mom and several other loved ones! Througout the day I continued to pump and feed him bottles and he took it like a champ! No tears. It was truly a miracle. I had never yet seen God answer such a specific prayer for my children in such a quick time. THANK YOU JESUS! I am still on cloud 9 praising Him! California, here we come!