In case you are wondering where the name of this post came from, I will explain. A few weeks ago Benjamin had a random dream that he was holding our little girl as a new born and as he looked at her said, “Little Kicker” with a very high pitched voice and a funny accent so it sounded like “Litta Keecka”. He told me about that dream and ever since then we say that phrase when referring to the baby in my belly. And she really is a little kicker. I feel like she never settles down!
Anyway, I just thought I should post a quick update on the progress of our baby. She is almost 35 weeks along. We had an ultrasound at 34 weeks to check her growth and development. It was so neat to see her at this stage of the pregnancy. She was measuring in the 84th percentile all around. Her arms and legs were very long for her age. That explains all the kicking! She was a little over 5 pounds. Everything is measuring perfectly. The ultra sound tech (I love her! She is so good at explaining things and always makes me feel like my baby is precious and special.) saw little white pokey things coming from the babies head and exclaimed “Wow! She has a TON of hair! You can see it poking off the skull!” I can’t wait to slick her hair into a little curly cue!
She has finally flipped so that her head is at least pointing down, although a little to the side still. We feel very grateful and humbled that everything is going so well. Due to medical problems, we were not able to have a baby the first 4 years of our marriage. Due to some of my medical problems we were worried that I would either be very ill or the baby would have low birth weight. I have been perfectly healthy and the baby is what my doctor called “beefy”, so we feel extremely blessed. We got to see a 3D picture of her face, but it was very hard to get a good one because she was so squirmy. And after going through the scanner, the quality is even worse, but you can still see her cute little pout.
We will never forget the pain and longing that comes with not being able to have a baby and we have many, many friends who are dealing with loss and infertility. Our hearts break for them and we pray for them often. I often hear people say that they didn’t truly understand God’s love until they had a baby, and that may be true, but I also know that we felt a powerful increase in comfort, faith, and our understanding of Gods love as we went through the trial of being childless. That pain and waiting has only increased our understanding of God’s love for us and made us all the more grateful and appreciative of this baby.
My due date is February 15th and I feel like a little kid on Christmas Eve. When will the long wait to open my presents ever be over?! I am so excited and surprisingly not scared at all. Don’t ask us what we are naming her because we have about 5 names we really like and we wont be able to decide until we meet her. And I wont be posting a picture of my belly. Ever. I don’t know why, I just don’t want to. It’s big and round, though, in case you were wondering. Today I have been indulging in my guilty pleasure of watching the TLC show I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant on Youtube and I can confidently say that my belly is much too round and large to mistake it for anything other than a baby. It is seriously crazy that these women go full term without knowing they are expecting!
Oh, I should also mention that by June my little girl will have 4 little girl cousins! Four of Benjamin’s sisters are having/had little girls. Beth had Madelyn in October, Chelsea had Pearl a few days ago, my girl will come in February, Kylie’s little girl will come in April, and Jess will finish it off with a little girl in May! How cool is that! The five of them will be such great friends!
Pray for a healthy, full term baby. I’ll introduce you to her once she is here in about 5 weeks or so. Wish us luck!
