Letter to editor: Glad to live in nation where women have choice to give birth

Letter to the editor
Published: August 18, 2008

Glad to live in nation where women have choice to give birth
Every afternoon at work, I look forward to going home to see my 9-month-old daughter. She has beautiful blue eyes and a smile straight off the Gerber bottle. My wife and I were very excited when we found out we were having a baby. She purchased a book titled, “What to Expect When You Are Expecting.”

Every month along my wife would read to me in bed how little “boo-boo” was progressing.

The first month she said the baby had a head with a mouth opening. The second month our child had arms, feet, (hands and toes I might add) ears, and a tongue.

To my surprise all major organs were there! The third month … toenails and taste buds. The fourth month we found out the baby was a little girl. We named her Alleria after my aunt. Little Alleria developed fingerprints, my wife read. The fifth month we felt Alleria kicking! She can recognize sound and make faces.

In the sixth month, Alleria can open and close her eyes and even survive outside of her mom’s body. In the seventh month Alleria’s lungs are beginning to function. In the eighth month my wife began to get miserable. I felt sorry for her. Our daughter has begun to sleep and dimples have appeared on her elbows and knees. In the ninth month Alleria has ran out of kicking room and our little family of three are ready for the big day.

I cried the first time I held Alleria. She was so beautiful and perfect. I know without a doubt my mom and dad were in heaven rejoicing over the birth of their granddaughter.

It is truly amazing we live in a nation that has a reputation of defending the innocent and the weak that also gave my wife a choice to give birth to Alleria.

William “Bubba” Dupree
Opelika