Happy Valley

Today, I went to yet another one of my weekly OB appointments to get "checked." (If you have had a baby, you know what this means! If you haven't, you can probably guess.) Anyways, I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that I am trying to avoid having a caesarean this time around, and so I am really hoping my body will cooperate and go into labor on its own. Anyway, with my due date only 3 days away things aren't exactly "blooming" like I would like them to be, and today I was discussing my discouragement with my doctor. http://www.exponentii.org/issuesonline/v23n3/v23n3drmom.html (This link is kinda outdated, I think it was written when she was in med school.) Let me just tell you a little about her, because she is amazing. First of all, she is a mother of 6! Which is an amazing feat in and of itself. She even has a place for her kids to hang out in the basement of her practice, they range in ages from about 18 down to 3 years. But then you add to that the fact that she is a Dr. who not only does OB stuff, she also does family medicine. Add to that she has been the Young Women's president in her ward for the past 4 years. On top of everything else, she is so cool, you feel like you are just chatting with a friend when you are in her office (makes sitting there wearing nothing but a giant paper towel over your nether region not feel quite so uncomfortable!) So today we were discussing my options, and she is really supportive of my desire to avoid the c-section, too. Then she goes "I will pray for you." (It was one of those comments where you are kinda kidding, but also kinda not- you know what I mean?) But I really think she meant it! My point of telling this story is that I just get such a kick out of living here sometimes. The church is true no matter where you go, and there are good people in all corners of the world, but it just made me feel so comforted to know that I am trusting my most precious and important and vulnerable things to someone who loves the Lord and seeks His guidance. It made me feel like no matter what the outcome, everything will be okay. And I really needed to feel that today.