When my midwife said "You were right. It's a girl.", my heart was filled with so much love. When they placed Sadie in my arms my heart swelled with even more love. I have never felt this kind of love before.
We knew right away that we wanted to name her Sadie Rae. Since I was about 6 weeks pregnant I had my heart set on the name Sadie. I just knew she was a girl. Through out my whole pregnancy the name Sadie kept coming up in random places. In books, magazines, movies... I thought it was just a coincidence at first but then it happened so many times I felt it was God telling me we were having a girl and she was to be named Sadie. I would pray that God would give me a sign and sure enough the name Sadie would come up at some point that day. And the name isn't that popular so I just knew it was God speaking to me.
Sadie means "princess". Which if you know me well I have always been my Dads princess and then after meeting Mika, his princess. My family refers me to that since I have "princess" like high maintenance tendencies, So it would only make sense that my daughters name would mean that! I didn't know the meaning of Sadie until I was about 38 weeks pregnant. I had prayed for another sign that morning and then I decided to look up what her name meant and after reading that it meant "princess" Mika and I just laughed.
Sadie's middle name, Rae, is after one of my dear friends Raeanne. I was named Melissa Marie after my mom's childhood best friend so I wanted to follow that family tradition. Raeanne is one amazing women and I am honoured to use her name for Sadie's middle name.
Since bringing Sadie home from the hospital I have fallen even more in love with her. I am always wanting to hold and cuddle her all day long. I just love being a mama to this precious baby girl. We are so thankful and blessed that we have such a happy, healthy, perfect baby. She is such a content baby. She rarely fusses or cries. She wakes up once in the night to feed (a perk of having a 10 lb baby! They don't need to eat as often!). As long as she gets enough cuddles during the day she is a happy baby.
Here are some of my favourite photos of Sadie.
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| Meeting my girl, Sadie. |
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| First family photo! |
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| I love her. "The moment a child is born, the mother is also born." |
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| Daddy and his girl. |
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| "Before you were born we dreamed of you, we imagined you, We prayed for you. Now that your here We hope for you, We love you, We thank God for you." |
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| SO much love. |
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| Love her to pieces. |
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| My Sadie girl! Mel xo |
