the adams' blog

Two posts ago, I wrote “I can hardly wait until the 20th week so we can see more progress”. Well the 20th week has arrived, and we went to the doctor today to do the anomaly scan. This scan is done to check for birth defects, Down Syndrome, and some other things I’m unsure about, but we were told everything looks good! Red is apparently a very healthy baby at this point, praise God!

The ultrasound today was a lot longer than any other ultrasound we’ve ever had, of course. We saw a lot more detail this time. We could still see that little heart beating rapidly, and we could see Red’s lips, mouth, tongue, eyes, nose, legs, arms, brain, spinal cord, hands, feet, toes, fingers, you name it! We even saw a full blatter right before Red pee’d. As expected, Red has grown a lot, and is now approximately 15 ounces. Red was even moving those little arms around, and even had one arm up in front of the mouth, which gave the impression of sucking a thumb.

This is my first child, and I have to say that I’m constantly reminded of scripture every time I see our child in Jessica’s womb. While we were going through the ultrasound today, and the technician was pointing out all of these neat features of the baby, I was reminded of the scripture David spoke in Psalms 139:13-14 that says “thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” This is so true. I told Jessica that God has been good to us. He made us wait for this baby, and as impatient as I’ve been throughout these years, I understand now that everything is ultimately on God’s schedule. I later told Jessica that I thought about the scripture (from Job 1:20) which says “the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away”. When she questioned me about why I thought of that, I told her that God took Mother and Gramps from us this year, but He also gave us this baby.

The biggest news today was Red’s gender. According to the ultrasound tech, we’re going to be the proud parents of a little girl! We’ve both wanted a girl from the very beginning (although we would have been just as happy with a boy). I can’t remember the last time I was this excited about anything! Jessica and her mom went on a shopping spree after the appointment and came home with all kinds of pink and purple outfits.

Of course, today was somewhat bittersweet. When we got in our cars (Jessica rode with her mom, I had to go back to work) I saw Jessica dialing somebody on her cell phone. I didn’t know who she was calling, but I began to think about who I could call that would be as excited about this as me, and I couldn’t think of anybody. This is not to say that my siblings wouldn’t be happy for me, but I longed to talk to my mother today. I wanted to hear her voice, and hear her excitement when I told her Red is a girl. This sort of hit me hard as I drove away from the doctor’s office. Then out of nowhere, my dad called me. I figured he wouldn’t be overly excited, but he was excited enough to apparently call my sister to tell her as soon as he got off the telephone with me.

We have some video of the ultrasound that I hopefully can turn into a movie file so people can see it on here, or something. In the meantime, we have more pictures. Here they are: