We Found Out Today Our Baby Is a...
Well, first the most important part. At 17 weeks, everything looks great. Good, strong and steady heartbeat...all the parts were in the right place...no obvious abnormalities...and very active (the baby was reaching down and doing toe-touches while we watched on the monitor).
It's strange, though, how much more stressful the minutes and hours before the ultrasound following a miscarriage. There is the confidence that God is in control and that whatever is wrong, if that is the case, He will give the grace and ability to deal with it and love that child, but the unknowns and what-ifs still creep in.
OK, back to the big question of what the ultrasound revealed. As it turns out, the baby was very cooperative and allowed us to see that it is very much a little BOY. Any name suggestions are welcome (that could be disastrous!).
I have to ask one question that completely baffles me: First let me say that I know the theological reasons, but I'm still amazed at the personal level. How is it that someone...anyone can look at an ultrasound, see that little baby moving and turning and stretching out arms and legs, literally see and hear the heartbeat pumping away, and come away saying that is only potential life? Man, that is life! It gets no more alive and autonomous than that as a life with the right to go on being a life. Anyone who says otherwise is just plain blind...and it is so very sad. I hurt for those with that blindness and pray that someday the eyes will be opened and they can see this treasure for what it is...nothing more, nothing less.
It's strange, though, how much more stressful the minutes and hours before the ultrasound following a miscarriage. There is the confidence that God is in control and that whatever is wrong, if that is the case, He will give the grace and ability to deal with it and love that child, but the unknowns and what-ifs still creep in.
OK, back to the big question of what the ultrasound revealed. As it turns out, the baby was very cooperative and allowed us to see that it is very much a little BOY. Any name suggestions are welcome (that could be disastrous!).
I have to ask one question that completely baffles me: First let me say that I know the theological reasons, but I'm still amazed at the personal level. How is it that someone...anyone can look at an ultrasound, see that little baby moving and turning and stretching out arms and legs, literally see and hear the heartbeat pumping away, and come away saying that is only potential life? Man, that is life! It gets no more alive and autonomous than that as a life with the right to go on being a life. Anyone who says otherwise is just plain blind...and it is so very sad. I hurt for those with that blindness and pray that someday the eyes will be opened and they can see this treasure for what it is...nothing more, nothing less.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 11/02/2006 06:40:00 AM
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Congratulations to you and your wife, David.
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