An Engineer Becomes a Mom

Two engineers get married, delay baby-making and get hit with the unexplained infertility stick. Eight years: multiple failed cycles; 3 failed IUI's; 1 long adoption wait and successful adoption (Baby X); 2nd long adoption wait, 1 failed placement, 1 failed match and finally 1 successful placement (Baby Z). This is my story.

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Showing posts with label 2nd adoption. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2nd adoption. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to Finalization

It couldn't be a slam dunk. That would be way too easy. While I can't share a lot of detail in this space I can attempt to tell the ...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Hanging On and Counting Down

Working full-time before taking maternity leave is hard. Really, really hard. For the last 10 weeks or so, all I've wanted to do is be h...

Monday, September 15, 2014

Nano blog -TPR

J signed the termination papers late last week. Going to be filed in court early this week. Six months from now is finalization.

#MicroblogMondays: Back to Work

S and I are lucky in that we are able to both take extended family leave now that Baby Z is here. S doesn't get paid for the 12 w...

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

There's a Baby

Baby Z, as he will be known on my blog*, was born on Saturday Sept. 6th. We are home, he seems to have a 9pm-12am witching hour(s) and has ...

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Dread is Back

Two days past J's expected due date. No updates. Called the agency at 9:30am this morning. It's 11:20am and I haven't gotte...

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Dealing with Family

These past few weeks, especially the last two have been rife with stress, anxiety and worry. You would think that having my family nearby w...

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Update on Waiting and Worrying

I called for an update this afternoon. Plan is still in place, and J is miserable physically. There wasn't much change at her doctor...

Waiting and Worrying

While we have been waiting for theoretical baby to be born, my cousin had her baby. I remember when she announced her pregnancy that S and I...

Friday, August 15, 2014

Anxiety

...is rampant in my household. S and I have had multiple conversations this week about our feelings on this very particular wait. In anoth...

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Names

Naming a baby is difficult. We had it easy with X as C named him, and it so happened that his name was on our list as a very late addition....

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

2nd Meeting...Not so Good?

We met with J (expectant mom) again tonight. This meeting was to get together with our kids and let them play together, meet them, etc. X ...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Meeting for the First Time

She is so freaking cute. Expectant mom, I mean. We had our first meeting with her and it went really well. She chose us because we are k...

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The Formal Presentation and Updates

The formal presentation was on June 30 (our 12th wedding anniversary :) ). It went well, as expected. The caseworker assigned to us is th...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

3rd Time's the Charm?

I leave my cubical for 2.5 minutes to heat up lunch. I get back to find that I missed a phone call from the agency. Pretty sure it only...

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Another Update - Baby N

I know, I'm a posting machine! I actually meant to put this with the previous post, but I'm traveling, and got food poisoning so ye...

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

On the Adoption Waiting Front

The update for June came yesterday. We are still at position No. 10 on the waiting list, so if they've had placements, they've all ...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

1 Year Ago Today at 7:00am

As I scrambled to grab Baby X, keys, lunch and coffee to get out the door and go to work, S called from the road: "We aren't going...

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Radio Silence

I don't often go two weeks or more without posting, but at this time I don't have much to say. On Mother's Day I turned 40. Th...

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Turning it Around

Over the past couple of months weight has crept on fueled by eating and drinking my way through anxiety and grief over another failed match ...

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