It's been a whirlwind since I've last written; our lives have been completely changed by the news that we are expecting a baby. After many emotional months of trying, taking negative pregnancy tests and trying some more, we finally were blessed with the news that we'd been hoping and praying for.
I'm now 6 and 1/2 months pregnant and the it's hard to believe so much time has already passed and so little time is left to go before we take home our own little bundle of joy. Thankfully, our little guy hasn't given me too much trouble - no morning sickness and very little discomfort aside from a stint of migraines between my 1st and 2nd trimester.
It's an amazing and indescribable sensation to know that you are creating a living, breathing human being within your own body; it brings into perspective how beautifully and wonderfully made our bodies truly are. The fact that simple cells can multiply and divide to form a functioning human body with a pumping heart, beautiful big eyes, wriggling fingers and toes, etc, is astounding.
As days continue to fly by, I am more and more anxious to meet this little man who will forever change our lives. Millions of questions fly around my mind from minute to minute - What will he look like? Whose features will he have? What color will his hair and eyes be? Will he be tall like his parents? Will I be able to endure labor? Am I doing everything I should be now so he's healthy later? Will we be good parents? What if something- anything - goes wrong? When will I know I'm in labor? Will my water break in the middle of the grocery store, or at work, or at home....or at all?
Most of all I just can't wait for the snuggles, the special moments of just luxuriating in the joys of having a beautiful baby boy in our lives. I am overwhelmed already at the thought, and suddenly feel a new bond with my own mother now that I am soon to be a mother myself. I think about what she went through with her pregnancies for each of the three of us and how we grew up and how I wouldn't change a thing. My only wish for our little boy is that he have a good life...that he be happy and understand the true value of the important things in life...not so much material things, but the value and importance of relationships, of love and lessons, of working hard, and learning to embrace the small things in life and not take them for granted.
I am fully aware that this has already and will continue to change our lives for the better and I couldn't be more excited or more thankful for this beautiful blessing.
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