God is Faithful...

I can still remember when we first discovered I was pregnant with the first child, both Mr M & I knew in our spirit that it would be a boy. It was always Mr M's heartfelt desire to have his first born to be a son so that he would look after me when his son was older. And just as Mr M prayed, we discovered at 16wks of my pregnancy with Z, that his prayers were answered.

Mrs M on the other hand had always prayed that God would grant her a daughter. A daughter that would share girly things with her, bond over feminine issues, cook with her, go shopping together, sharing through pregnancy/labour pains in the future together etc etc. I had always believed that God's faithfulness would prevail despite everyone saying to me that I was more likely to have sons since there are a lot of boys running in both of our families.

So when I fell pregnant with BM2, I remember looking at my 12wks scan seeing my baby's face for the first time and realising that BM2's head features was actually quite similar to mine. I started to have hope that it would be a girl until.....

I had constant nausea (although it was no where as bad as Z), breaking out zits, having pointy tummy! Everyone was convinced that I was having a boy to the point that I too, had lost hope that my 2nd child would be a girl. Then came all the news that of all of our friends & colleagues were expecting or just had a son! I was convinced too that I was going to have another boy! So I had told everyone that it was a boy & that Z would be very blessed to have a brother to have play fights/wrestling matches with :)

This morning, we finally went to have our 20week ultrasound scan. After the doctor had spent 20mins measuring BM2's organs, bone structure & features, he finally asked us 'so any questions?'
Finally, the long awaited moment has come. I quickly asked him 'Can you please tell us the sex of the child?'. He replied 'are you sure you want to know?' (which to me sounded like he was implying that it was a boy and that news would some what disappoint me). I continued to proceed with 'Of course!'. He then finally said 'ok.. I'm 100% convinced that it's a.......... (he was really good at keeping us in suspense as he literally took this long pause before finally saying) .... girl!'

It was at that point that I nearly fainted. All this time I had prepared myself to receive the news that it was going to be a boy. We had already picked a name for him & was going to start calling 'him' his name from today onwards. But God decided to startle us with our little surprise.

Mr M could not stop wiping the smile off his face. Immediately he said to me 'See I told you so.. '. He was the only 3 people out of like 80ppl that thought it was a girl. Everyone else too was convinced it was a boy including myself. I was totally over the moon. I felt like I was a million $ richer.

While driving to work, I started to tear.. I couldn't believe God had finally answered my prayer yet again. He has finally granted my longing to have a daughter. I am just so amazed & enveloped by His faithfulness in our lives. I can truthfully say that there has been nothing in my life that He has not granted me. How could I ever doubted Him in the first place with the sex of BM2?

Praise God in deed for our little Princess of the Living King! Mummy & Daddy can not wait to meet you!

"oh mummy, do you have to take a photo of me even at this tender age? Grrr"


PINK PINK PINK, DRESS DRESS DRESS ---> Here I come!