The Miracle of Life

This morning as I laid in bed I could feel the baby hiccuping inside me. What a miracle it is that I can carry another life within me throughout my entire day and night. There are so many amazing things about having a life inside you. Here are some things I have found amazing about my pregnancy:

1. She (the baby) can hear her siblings and their playing, talking, or other loud, abrupt noises they make (add to that my yelling). How do I know? A couple of times one of my kids have dropped some thing or made a sudden loud noise and she actually jumped inside me. Cool huh!

2. She can feel heat and touch. When I get in the shower in the morning and let the warm water run over me she starts to move and wiggle all around. I am sure she can feel the change in temperature. Right now her butt is pressed up against my stomach right above my belly button. She gets her bum warmed every morning in the shower

3. Her sister already has so much love for her she cries. Lorelei cries almost every day now about how much she wants her sister here with her. She loves to sit with me on the couch and feel her sister move inside me and she talks to my belly with her mouth right up close almost touching, just to make sure the baby can hear. She even made a book about the two of them and all the things she loves. For example, “I love you when we play. I love you when we sleep. I love you kiss.” Does it get any sweeter than that? A child can have a boat load of love for someone before they have even met.

4. Even though labor is a horrid, dreaded affair, I can’t wait to get through it so we can meet this new part of our family. It’s so exciting to wonder what she will look like and what sort of personality she will have.

For each baby I have taken a picture of my belly to place inside their baby scrapbook albums. My husband claims the photos all look the same, but they are all different to me. When you are the one carrying the baby there are moments you can remember from each pregnancy; the way the baby moves, the heartburn, the hiccups, my first daughter sucking her thumb (I swear I could feel it even before she was born!). Each photo is special and beautiful to me. Somehow I can look past the stretch marks and the flattened belly button and think about the miracle inside me.

This time we took a couple of photos with Lorelei and I looking at my belly and talking about her sister. We talk about the clothes we will pick out, the places we can all go together (American Girl Doll store here we come), what she might look like. I am so glad that she has been blessed with a sister and that my boys have each other too.