February 18, 2005
#2
Oh, and by the way, if you didn't already know, we've started the process of adopting our second child. We don't expect to bring her (we've requested a girl) home until summer of 2005, so it'll be a while yet.
getupgrrl writes the following about her gestational surrogacy:
It's not that I'm depressed or anxious or sad, because I'm not. It's just that this entire pregnancy feels very surreal to me, like a dream that I can't quite remember. I'm not pregnant. My body hasn't changed at all. I've had no morning sickness, no fatigue, no food cravings. My life has gone on as before. Well, I don't go to the hospital every morning dressed in easy-access sweatpants, that's true. But I still can't quite believe that I might actually end up with a child at the end of all this.
Those surreal feelings and the difficulty in believing that "I might actually end up with a child at the end of all this" resonate with me even though we are in completely different circumstances.
- wink [February 18, 2005 11:45 PM]Karin says:
Congratulations, good luck, and may it be as speedy a process as it can be.
And by the way, I think that after fertility issues, whatever your final means of having a baby, there is always a surreal feeling about it. Maybe it's like that for everyone - at least the first time, but I don't know. I know for me, even when I can look at her and touch her, sometimes it still doesn't seem real. Middle of the night crying - that makes it seem more real. :)
Anyway, my thoughts are with you! :)