Baby, Oh Baby!!!

Baby, Oh Baby!
by Louise Bergmann DuMont

Baby Girl DuMont Is Coming – Hurray!
My son and my daughter-in-law are thankful its true,
especially this year – and the reason is HUGE.
Roni is growing a bit everyday,
with a precious God-Gift inside her today.
“Its a girl,” the Doc noted, “A girl?” JC queried.
“A girl,” Roni whispered. Then together they cheered!
Our family did mark this momentous event,
with prayer and feasting and heaven’s consent.

Yes, my son and daughter-in-law are having a little girl. Have you ever seen pictures of a developing embryo? The process (called embryogenesis) is amazing. Two haploid cells meet and a single diploid cell is formed. If everything proceeds on schedule, a child is born nine months later.
It sounds so simple. But how does that combined cell know that it should divide... and divide... and divide some more? And of those divided cells, how does one cell know that should be the beautiful blue iris of our granddaughter, another know it will become her healthy liver tissue and yet another know it should form magnificent muscle to produce the delightful sound of her beating heart.

Some adult cells duplicate (skin cells are washed away when we shower and new ones replace them each day) but once a person is born a liver cell can never change to become part of a hair follicle or vice versa. Yet God provides miracles every day. He instructed one very special combination of cells to become our granddaughter. He told that very first cell how many additional cells would be needed, where each cell should position itself, and exactly when they should get started. Nine months later, a daughter is ready for her mother’s and father’s (and grandparent’s) arms. This is amazing stuff!

Some individuals would like us to believe that an embryo is nothing more than a clump of nondescript cells. They talk about the initial embryonic stage looking like a tadpole – implying that it is a throw-back to humans emerging from ooze trillions of years ago. But researchers know (although they haven’t figured out how) that cells are “coded” with information. The joining of two human cells can not create a frog because only human information is coded into those cells. It already is what God ordained – a precious child.

God wants his children to know that they are no accident. He perfectly forms each child before their mother or father even knows the child exists. As much as I already love the granddaughter whose birth we await – it thrills my heart to know that God loves her even more.

The word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart... " Jeremiah 1:4-5b