Pregnancy: Update at 17 Weeks

Yesterday was a huge day for Donna and I in that we found out what we are having. In my mind I already knew that we were having a little girl but just needed to hear it from someone wearing scrubs or a lab coat to believe it. Needless to say we are both so excited about our baby girl. We have had a name picked out for either sex for a long time now, our choice for a girl has always been Shelby Mae (both of our grandmothers middle names are Mae, so this wasn’t a hard one at all).

In my earlier posts you might recall my mentioning how nervous I have been going into doctors appointments to have ultrasounds, probably has a lot to do w/ our past complications trying to get pregnant and the three miscarriages we have had to endure. Without getting too deep on this short update I will just say that it’s been a tug of war between my concern for my wife and my faith in God. Don’t get me wrong, I know God is in control and have all along but yesterday when we reached the milestone of actually finding out what we were having and being able to put a name on this baby it was like God spoke to me as if to say, just do your part and let me do mine. I’ve let you put a name on this baby just like Adam named all of creation. There’s something about this recent milestone that I hope I can sit down and elaborate on in another post one day soon.

As far as Donna goes, she’s doing great! Shelby Mae really showed out on the ultrasounds yesterday too, I am posting two YouTube videos from the doctors visit. Thanks for all of your continued prayers of support! You will never know how much we appreciate them!!

This is the video of us finding out what we are having. Actually the nurse had already told us but I made her do it again because I wanted it captured on video. I’m a nerd I know…

In this video you can see Shelby is completely upside down in the womb w/ her legs kicked back over her head. There’s a really good profile shot in this video.

Again, thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers!!!