20 Weeks and A Name

I have officially made it to the half way point with baby girl. Half way for someone with "normal" pregnancies anyway. For me, who knows when I really hit that point, but we'll call it today. We have been busy shopping, planning and mulling over names for this little one for the last little while. And I think that we have finally come to a first name conclusion. Hooray!

Here's a little background on the name we have chosen (if you want to know, if not skip to the end.) For those of you that don't know the whole story, at my first 2 appointments with this one, we were told that we would most likely miscarry again. My blood work was all wrong and they couldn't locate the baby nor a heartbeat either time via ultrasound. We were distraught and sad and didn't know what to think when the Dr. kept telling us, "let's wait one more week before terminating." And then was told the same thing the next week, "let's wait one more week." I came home heartbroken and told Mike that the the only thing we could do or have control over was to have a little faith. I even joked with him that if it hung in there and it was a girl, we needed to use the name Faith as a middle name. Finally that 3rd appointment, a shocked me and an equally shocked Dr. found a heartbeat. A good, strong, fast heartbeat. It was amazing and not at all what I expected when we went in.
Fast forward a little bit and Mike was certain that they were going to tell us that we were having another little boy. Again I muttered the words, "lets just have a little faith that they will surprise us." We would have loved a little boy all the same, but still our hearts were pretty set on having a girl. And when they told us it was a little girl, the name Faith rose on the ongoing list to be both a consideration of first and middle name possibilities.
After the small scare again in Omaha, I think it became abundantly clear to us that the only name that fits this baby truly is Faith. We discussed multiple names together and that one always seemed to trump the others. So it's now 95% official...This baby will have the first name of Faith.
We are agreed that we both love it. No decisions, just ideas of a middle name so far. But at least we are making progress. Baby Faith is on her way.