from just breastmilk to breastmilk and rice cereal. I know it's not very LLL of me to introduce rice cereal at five months, but, I have a baby who is no longer satisfied with breastmilk alone. So, we have a baby who is starting solids.
But this isn't the real thrust of this post. It's about looking back and seeing how far we had come. Two Christmases ago, we were sadly contemplating the holiday season as our first baby was to be due around the 23rd but was lost during my seventh week. We were also looking at the scary process of surgery I would undergo in the hopes it would prevent losing any other babies. Then, last Christmas, we had a picture from our first ultrasound showing a tiny life no bigger than a peanut at that point. July seemed so far away! Now, here we are, with a five-month-old healthy, beautiful baby girl who is cutting teeth and graduating slowly to solids.
I am forced to remember that life moves at God's speed, not our own. We were given Shelby when we were ready for her. And it seems to be part of God's plan, not ours (ours was to wait until six months) to start cereal now. We are moving on and up in life with the grace and love of God
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