Being a mother is the one thing that I knew one day I was going to become. If nothing else, bringing a baby into this world was the one thing that I was going to do. From that first initial moment of knowing, my whole world changed. Once I found out that I was pregnant, I felt like I had this wondrous, little miracle beginning to grow and develop somewhere deep inside me. All the way through I knew that my husband and I were going to be blessed with a little girl. Having a daughter is wonderful and scary and a challenge.

The morning my daughter was born was a little uneventful. I didn't get to hold her for long because I had to have a C-section, and I was put to sleep for it. I saw her for five minutes and fell back asleep. At about 8 a.m. that same morning I got to see her and touch her and be with her. My husband wasn't with me nor was my mother. It was just Adrianna and I when she was wheeled into my room in her little plastic bassinet that she slept in for two days. She was calm when she came into my room and just looked at me. I think she knew right then and there that I was her mom. All the time that we spent in the hospital, I think she cried a few times. It was nice that I stayed in the hospital for longer than normal, and it was only because I had a C-section. I got to know Adrianna a little bit before we left the hospital. Adrianna is so beautiful and so full of wonder. She is only 4 months old, but she loves to stand up on my lap, and she wants to sit up more than lie down. She smiles all the time and talks to us at all the appropriate times it seems. She loves to hold onto stuff and put everything into her mouth. She is very sweet and seems to know what's going on around her. Adrianna makes my husband and I laugh all the time and keeps us busy. She has been a fun little person to be with from the very beginning.

Having Adrianna has been hard work, but I could not imagine her not being here. She is the light of my life. I look at her and fall in love with her again and again. She is going through an assortment of noises and has a fake little cry.

It's hard to believe that she is already 4 months and is growing like wild fire. She is a chubby little breastfed child, who loves to eat all the time and be close to me. She is very much a mother's girl. She is truly my daughter and looks just like me when I was a baby.

I love this child more than life itself. She has taught me so much in the short time that she has been here. I look forward to the rest of my life with her and my other children.

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