Hey Girl

This is Odell. She will be turning two in August. She is our third born.
She almost didn't make it here. When I was 14 weeks pregnant with her, I woke up one morning with really painful cramps. Within the next couple of hours I started bleeding heavily (this pregnancy was after a scary miscarriage where I had to go to the hospital because I was bleeding so bad)- my husband was at work so my mother in law drove me to the doctor's office. During the ultrasound I saw a healthy, rapidly beating heart and a perfect little baby on the screen and I fell in love. Then my doctor told me that I had a large blood clot in my uterus, my cervix had shrunk to 2 cm and that I was probably going to miscarry within the week. That was heart-wrenching for me, especially because she was just fine on the ultrasound, there was nothing wrong with her, she was perfect, but there was nothing they could do.
Well the week passed. And then another week. And then another week, and although my cervix was on a roller-coaster, lengthening and then shrinking, then lengthening and shrinking again, she just kept being the perfect little baby that she was and refused to leave. With lots of prayer and lots of rest, God let us keep this beautiful baby girl. In fact she made it to 38 weeks, full term, and has been just an angel since then.
Well, sort of. I just found her with one of our unzipped and halfway unstuffed couch pillows. We love her anyway.
So to Odell, I say, "Hey Girl. Thanks for being here and making me the luckiest Momma in the world."
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