In case you have lived under a rock and don't know what the books are about, I'll give a brief explanation here. If you are looking forward to reading these books yourself in the future, this is your warning, spoiler alert ahead...
Bella is human and is undeniably, unequivocally in love with Edward who is a vampire. She easily gives up the thought of having children because she never felt that being a mother was that important to her and her love for Edward far outweighed her desires for a child. This story leads into how they do create a child, against all odds, and the struggle to bring forth this child into the world is not an easy one.
Now I chose to discuss this here, on Zechariah's 22 months of life because I related so much with the emotions that went through Bella the moment she finds out she's pregnant...because you see upon meeting Nathanael, I too fell deeply and madly in love with him, just as Bella did Edward. Due to Nathanael's history with cancer, he shared with me that if we chose to remain together biological children were not to be for us. I easily accepted that, as I never really thought much about motherhood before that either. All I knew is I wanted to be with him.
And then it happened. I surprisingly became pregnant.
And my whole world changed from that point forward.
As Bella struggled in this book to bring her baby into this world, I too fought my own battle, to conceive and bring forth a child. Our child. Because once I knew it was possible. Once I felt that baby, saw that heartbeat, it had to be mine.
It was like a switch went off in my soul.
And so I share a few excerpts from the book because inadvertently Stephanie Meyer has captured my heart and places it's words onto her pages...
"From that first little touch the whole world had shifted. Where before there was just one thing I could not live without, now there were two. There was no division-my love was not split between them now; it wasn’t like that. It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice it’s size in that moment. All that space already filled. The increase was almost dizzying" -Bella Cullen finding out she is pregnant via Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
"I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice a necessity."-Bella Cullen talking about her baby in utero via Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
"What happened to change everything was that a soft little nudge bumped my hand from inside my body…" -Bella Cullen feeling the baby for the first time via Stephanie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
So as silly as it may be to relate to a fictional character in a fictional book about things in the universe that don't exist, I do. Having a child really has been the most prominent experience of my life and seeing words that capture my essence as a mother, was one I had to write about myself.
And so to you my Zechariah, I thank you for making the dream I didn't even know I had before you come true...I thank the angels before you for awakening the spirit of motherhood inside of me. I thank God for bringing the miracle of life into ours...where Dr's say there's no hope, Jesus knows there is. You are the joy of our lives. I love you more then words could truly ever express. Happy 22 months my love...
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