Our precious little child is now about 4 1/2 to 5 inches! In a way I cannot wait to hold our baby in my arms but then in another way, I know, we have a lot more baby stuff to buy before the baby gets here and the baby needs to grow and develop more before it can meet us.
Sometimes I feel little twitches and movements and I can only hope that its the baby moving, but Im not for sure because I know that it could just be my body. But I want to believe that it is the baby!
One night I was sitting on the couch, we had had visitors over that night and Daniel was walking out our last visitor when I felt this really interesting movement. It felt like a little squirming worm going across about 2 inches of my body. Sometimes Daniel listens for the baby and tells me he hears all sorts of sounds. I guess that's the father's part of joy that you can't really be a part of, but then again, since I'm carrying around the baby, my part of the joy is getting to feel little movements, that right now, no one can feel but me.
According to a book I have, the baby now has eyelashes and eyebrows and can move it's eyes from side to side...even though it's eyes are sealed closed. I found on a website that the baby is getting its fingerprints and toe prints this week! That is just incredible. Just like the Bible says: You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made!
An old friend talked to be about that a long time ago when she was talking to me about our lives... if you look at the word wonderfully in that verse and just think about it, it is saying you are full of wonder! Isn't that amazing. It's so true! God has made all of us full of wonder...especially the first stage of our lives as we are growing and developing inside the womb. I know technology has come a long way since I've been a baby...and research too for that matter and it's just incredible how much you can see and what you can find out from week to week about the baby growing inside of you! Its amazing...and its just one of the many amazing things that God created in order for us to just look, feel, and know...and say WOW!
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