31 weeks
Wow…where does the time go?!
So I’m in the third trimester, the final countdown, the home run…and I totally cannot wait!
I just want to meet him! He’s already got such a little personality, and definitely takes after us both with more energy than is necessary and an awesome sense of humour.
He appears to be head down at the moment, which is very good in birthing terms, but not so good on the pain front for me. Basically, he takes great delight in shoving his bony little bottom right up under my ribs and repeatedly kicking me there! He must be really comfy, but if you could see my insides I’m sure they’d be black and blue!!!
However, every painful twinge and restless, sleepless night only serves as a reminder that he is there, and he is growing well and has a strong heartbeat.
I now know two lovely ladies who have lost babies in their third trimester and I literally do not have words to say to them…their pain must be unbearable. Through pregnancy you become irrevocably close to the little life inside of you, and to have that snatched away is just so sad. To make it worse, neither of these ladies has an intimate relationship with God, and so they don’t have the deep abiding eternal hope which that brings. To me, God wants those precious little babies so much and He doesn’t want the evil world to make them sad. They brought joy to their mothers and fathers and probably taught them some lessons, and God WILL Glorify Himself through their existences, however seemingly short. Those babies only knew absolute closeness and love, and will continue to know that through God forever and ever. I know this is of comfort to any believer, but is it something I can really share with someone who rejects the Gospel?…
All I know is that I ADORE Daniel, but I know God loves him far more than I ever will be able, in a pure and unselfish, all-encompassing way. And the best thing I can do, that I try to do every day, is tell Daniel that. My prayer is that He knows and loves God…everything else pales into comparison.
If born now, Daniel would stand a 95% chance of survival. He is about as long as a newborn and is now putting on weight, sometimes as much as 1oz a day, and his little lungs are maturing ready for birth.
