Update February 4

30 weeks and the count down begins. We do not have very much longer till it will be time to welcome Addi into the world. We pray that she comes with a heartbeat and that we get to experience her first breaths of life outside the womb. With everyday, we fall more in love with her (if that's even possible, we already love her so much).
We went for our weekly visit today and we got to have an ultra-sound. Addi still lays extremely low, so it is very difficult for us to see her. She likes to be all curled up and nestled down in my womb. My amniotic fluid is low, so this makes the ultra-sound pictures very difficult to see. It is difficult to identify the different parts of her body and today was more difficult to see her than usual. The technician was able to measure Addi and give us her weight. She has gained 8 oz. in a month. She now weighs in at a whooping 1lb 5 oz! An average baby of her gestation should be about 2 lb 5 oz. I could tell that she has grown...bending over and getting up off the floor have become things that I try to just avoid. I also believe that she uses my bladder as her pillow!
We love getting to see our precious angel on the ultra-sounds and we love to hear her heartbeat each week, but we long to hold Addi in our arms and feel her heartbeat against us. Each month I really think that we will come for an ultra-sound and they will tell us how everything appears to be normal and that she looks to be in great health. But each month we get the pictures and we get the news that we don't want to hear. Even though Addi has grown this month, she is still lagging way behind other babies of her gestation. Her overall size and head are a few weeks behind and her abdomen is 8 weeks behind. I do not even know how that is possible...but the doctor said that is just incredibly tiny. How can someone so small and defenseless have such a fight inside of her? We are in awe of her and wonder what God and His little angel Addi have in store for our lives.