Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

I have a little person the size of a peach growing inside me!

Now that I'm feeling back to "normal" again - goodbye nausea and extreme exhaustion! - I find myself forgetting at times about this crazy, incredible thing my body is doing... growing a human being! The only real evidence of this right now is my pants feeling suspiciously snug and the appearance of eating one too many cupcakes!.. which maybe I have, since I've been craving sugar like crazy this pregnancy. With Wesley I got off easy and craved grapefruit and eggs, and while I'm TRYING to maintain my typically healthy diet, sometimes I just can't say no to my body's demand for Swedish Berries and Nibs!

It's definitely true that the second pregnancy is more laid-back (as I'm sure life with the second baby will be!) because you just don't have the brain-space to devote to thinking about it all day! So it's often not till I'm snuggled up under the duvet at night in the dark and quiet that it really hits me... the full revelation of this miracle. This tiny person, fearfully and wonderfully made... whose face and name the Lord knew before time began. I wonder and dream and pray about who they will be, and I speak words of health and faith over their precious life.

Not long after Wesley was born, a lovely, wise woman in our church wrote me a note of encouragement in which she said that I was the exactly right mother for him. That the Lord chose ME to be this child's mom... not because I was going to be a perfect mom, but the perfect mom for Wesley. I've always reminded myself of those words in moments of frustration or uncertainty. What a gift to be the 'perfect' mom for this little peanut as well!

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

    when I was made in the secret place,

    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

    all the days ordained for me were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.

~ Psalm 139: 13-16