March 11, 2010

• {i love monica}

  On Tuesday at my appointment I saw a midwife I hadn’t seen yet up to this point.

  “Wow! You’ve had quite the experience the past few months.” She said looking up from my chart.

  I smiled. “Yeah, which is why I’m a bit nervous being here today. Every appointment so far has been pretty eventful…”

  She stood up and starting putting her gloves on…

  “Well let’s just put your mind to ease right from the start, dear. Lay on back and let’s get that baby’s heartbeat.”

  She squeezed the cold jelly out on my stomach…

  “You’re a good 12 weeks so we shouldn’t have a problem getting it.”

  She turned the little doppler device on and began moving it slowly across my belly…
  I could hear different swishes and swooshes and kept thinking, “is that it? no. there it is?”

  She tilted her head to one side and listened more intensely.
  Pushing the doppler down harder and moving it from side to side.

  So much for the idea of this easing my mind!

  “Hmm..” She finally sat up straight and turned the tiny microphone off.
  “Let’s see if anyone’s available in the sonogram department…”

  I felt a million screams wanting to come out my mouth!!
  And when she left the room seriously contemplated running out of that office as fast as I could…
  little blue robe on and all!

  That morning when I was talking to my mom I told her I was feeling anxious about the appointment.
  She assured it was just a standard check up –
  “They won’t be doing a sonogram or anything, sis.”

  Guess again.

  When I walked down the hall I prayed the sonogram tech in that day would be the nice one-
  whose name started with a M… I couldn’t remember exactly what it was.
  I didn’t want the mean grumpy old lady that had “missed” baby and told us he was gone.

  When I walked through the door there was M.
  Which I learned that day actually stands for Monica.

  “Oh sweetie…” she sighed and smiled compassionately. “When they told me the patients name was, Amber, I was like, Noooooo!”

  But within seconds, once again, Monica found Hutchbaby.
  All bouncy and waving like before.
  She laughed and talked about how cute he was.
  Let me hear the nice strong heartbeat.
  And printed out a clear shot of his profile with his hand in front of his face. {we’re getting quite the collection}

  We joked about me naming the baby after her since she’s the only one who seems able to find him…
  she said she thinks this one just likes having it’s picture taken!
  And we said we felt we should do lunch or something since we’ve already been through alot together in our short time of acquaintance.  

  I just love that lady! I love her spirit and her love for the little life inside me~

  So grateful and relieved everything’s still okay.

  I thought I’d get some shots to document the end of my first trimester.
  It’s going by so fastandsoslow all at the same time.
  Kate took these this morning out in the shed, since it was raining.

  Say hello to the ever growing tummy o mine that’s housing the world’s only unborn hide-n-go-seek champion!!

     

   
   

  Thanks again for all your prayers ~ keep em coming!
  This little one has been so saturated with the grace and mercy of God.

  “I love the Lord because he has heard the voice of my supplications. Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord I beseech you, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.”  psalm 116 

  

  amber.

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