Well I'm not a on a soap box today. I got it out of my system, even though it kept me up at night. (thinking of adoption process) Venting is good. It definitely helps. I was reading a past entry about the scarred baby bellies and I should've added a link to it, I have no idea what it was called anymore. But it made me realize that I don't feel that way anymore, about the alienation of women I mean. I have since found wonderful resources in the online groups at Yahoo and Adoption forums, so obviously the "pity" came from the company I kept, not most women. I just wanted to add that, I think it's important to see how my views change as I go through this long process.
On that note here's a synopsis of our process:
- July 2004 we decided to think about trying for baby #2.
- August 2004 at an appointment I made as a check-up to talk to my Dr. about trying to conceive after having difficulty with my 1st pregnancy, a benign tumor (the size of a small grapefruit) was discovered on my left ovary. And I wondered why I looked 3 months pregnant all of the time!?
- September 2004 I had my Oophorectomy. (a funny name, you'd think it'd be ovarectomy or something)
- February 2005 we started trying for baby #2.
- April 2006 we started adoption.
- We finished our Homestudy the 3rd week of September.
- We received our Homestudy in the mail this Thursday (11/2)!
- We will hand deliver our I-600A to the USCIS on Monday!
That's it in a nutshell...
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