My sweet baby girl, For the longest time, I kept putting off writing this letter to you.  Not because I didn’t want to, but because every time I tried to write, my emotions would well up and I couldn’t get a word out on paper.  So here it goes.  My thoughts may be disjointed, but…

Hi ________, I’m your dad. We haven’t met face to face yet, but that will happen very soon. First, I should apologize. We don’t have a name for you yet, but that will come in due time–probably somewhere in between the time you make your way through the birth canal and the time you are…