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Felicia was in shock. She had come in for a regular check-up. How had this happened? Of course she knew ‘how this happened,’ but she and her husband had just about given up on ever having children. The doctors had told them that it was practically medically impossible for them, as a couple, to have children together.
Felicia thought back to the times she and her husband Shaun had come before the Lord, asking Him to prepare them for whatever His will was for their family. They had considered adoption, but it wasn’t monetarily feasible for them at this point in their lives. They still had student loans and now a mortgage to repay. Adoption was expensive. Felicia knew that she couldn’t place a dollar value on the life of a child, but they simply wouldn’t be able to make ends meet with adoption costs, and therefore they wouldn’t even be considered good candidates as adoptive parents.
Their next thought had been being a foster family. They knew that being foster parents would be very emotionally taxing and they weren’t positive that it was a good step for them to take on so early in their marriage, but now, now God had answered their prayers.
Felicia suddenly realized that she was already 7 weeks into her pregnancy! How could she have missed the signs? Of course, now looking back, she realized that she had been more emotional lately, but she had chalked that up to lack of sleep and stress. “I just need a few minutes to process this.” Felicia whispered to her doctor”, still feeling a bit stunned. “Take all the time you need!” her doc replied. “I’ll just go update your info at another computer.”
Felicia took a deep breath. Something on the wall caught her eye. It was an illustrated chart that showed a baby’s development during each week of a pregnancy. She slowly walked over to it and scanned the chart to the seventh week. Her baby was now ‘approximately the size of a large blueberry or a small grape.’ She read farther to find that her baby’s facial features were forming and its muscles were growing; Its toes and fingers were formed, but still had webs between them. Felicia was amazed at the detail!
She began to realize that she really did have a little life inside of her. God was forming a unique and special person, made up of the genetics of its family and their own special little quirks. This little person was going to have their own personality, their own likes and dislikes, wants and needs. Suddenly Felicia began to feel a little overwhelmed. She took another deep breath and reminded herself that she had 33 weeks, give or take a few days, to get ready for this little one. She really wanted to call her husband, but decided to wait until she could tell him the good news in person.
Felicia’s doctor came back then and they sat down to discuss the many little things that she could expect to experience in the next several weeks of her pregnancy. Before Felicia left the clinic, she had another appointment and a prescription for prenatal vitamins.
Felicia was glad that she had the day off work. She wasn’t sure that she would have been able to focus on the things she usually dealt with while there. She headed home and tried to think of something else so that she could calmly greet her husband when he arrived home from work. She started dinner and set herself to work on a particularly difficult word puzzle.
She was in a relatively peaceful state of mind when Shaun finally walked through the door an hour or so later. Dinner was ready to be put on the table and Felicia walked over to kiss her husband and welcome him home. They sat down at the table, but before Shaun could bow his head to bless the food, Felicia squeezed his hand tightly in her own and whispered excitedly, “I have something else we need to thank the Lord for!”
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