Sunday, 28 June 2009

• Currently The Ministry of Motherhood: Following Christ's Example in Reaching the Hearts of Our Children By Sally Clarkson see related

  The Last Trimester

  Don't know who knows me who's actually reading this.  For those of you who do know me, you've been reading my baby updates on my Facebook profile.  But to give this blog some attention, I'll write a little something.

  On Tuesday, the last day of June, I'll be in my last trimester, my seventh month, my twenty-eighth week of pregnancy.  At the end of last month, Gregg and I found out we're having a girl.  Just for fun, I checked out a baby gender predictor on thebump.com today and the result was a girl. 

  In our first year of marriage, just for fun, I looked up baby names on thinkbabynames.com.  I was actually Googling the meaning of a friend's name, and that site came up as a search result.  You could search names by meanings and I thought it would be cool to give our possible future daughter a name that meant "faithful" since it seems to be one of those characteristics we see less of in our world today.  One of the results was "Leala" and it was of French origin.  I'm part French Canadian, so I thought it was the perfect name.  [laughs] Through a friend's Facebook comment I found out that "Leala" was a popular girl's name in... I think 1880; sometime in the 1800's.  I did find this to be true on a baby name website today.  Maybe that's the website where she found out that information.  Gregg liked the name "Heart" for a girl, so our daughter's name will be Leala Heart Fields.  All the meanings I've found for "Leala" from the different baby name websites have been "loyal, faithful, loyal one".

  My original due date was on my birthday, September 22.  A couple different ultrasounds predicted September 17 and 16.  I had a dream that I had a baby girl with golden hair on September 19, which this year, is on the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah.  I thought that was interesting.  It was just a dream, but maybe it will turn out to be a prophecy.  Okay, feel special because I didn't share that on my Facebook.

  Gregg and I have had fun registering for baby things.  My friend is throwing me a baby shower at the end of next month.  Preparing for the baby to come helps me look forward to the actual day of labor.  I don't know what to expect entirely, but I keep telling myself that plenty of women have done it and survived.  Not to mention the women who have done it several times.  It's a sobering reality what a big responsibility a child is.  I mean, this is for life.  I daydream sometimes about ways I can be a good mom and other times I think about the fact that I'm not going to be perfect.  But I'm confident with God's help to live selflessly, I'll do a pretty decent job.
  

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