This past Monday our birth mom went to get her "check-up" at KUMed and she is dilated 3cm and baby girl is still to high. The Doctor would like to wait one more week and then induce on Nov. 4th! election day! We are glad to let her "bake longer".
This also gave me time this week to do baby registry at Target and Babies "R" Us for Evangelina. I kind of waited last minute to do it but, it was fast and very fun to do :)
It looks like our Welcome baby party will be Sun, Dec. 14th - here in Kansas City.
Car update: My car is fine now and it is running great! It just took a couple hundred dollars to fix it :( It could have been worse.
More to come soon...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Ready or not....here she comes!
This week has gone by so slow ....
It's Saturday evening and I (Silvia) am just getting off the phone with my youngest sister, Josie and Mom. My Mom is a very experienced "mommy". She had 7 of us and she knows her "mommy" stuff, ... she knows grandma stuff too! I forget how many grandchildren and great grandchildren she has now. Mom turned 78 this September.
Daniela is Josie & Juan's little girl; she's a 1 1/2 year old cutie and she is my niece. I have never actually kissed or hugged Daniela. They live in Soledad, California.
I'm wondering what being a grandma is going to be like????? I'll know pretty soon, I guess. I think I will be calling my mommy alot in the months to come.
Silvia Pryor: aka, Evangelina's Grandma from Missouri
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
She will be delivered next week!
Every Monday they have baby health "tests". The birth mom is weighed, blood test (for her gestational diabetes), urine test, baby heart test, sonogram, etc.
And this week I was able to go along. She is bigger now than one week ago and the pictures from the sonogram showed lots of movement from the baby. I was able to see her sucking on her hand and fingers then after a bit she stuck out her tongue. Birth mom right now only gets about two hours of sleep at night. So, she was relieved at the words the doctor had to say Monday afternoon...."Monday (Oct 27th) we will check to see if you are thin and dilated and by the end of the appointment you will have a date and time that we are going to induce you." So, our birth mom could possibly be induced as early as Oct 28th! The Doc. wants baby girl out because of birth moms diabetes. As, of right now we are all hopeful and excited to see our baby girl next week! All good news!
The bad news - My car broke down on our way back home from the doctors appointment and we are unable to get it fixed until Friday. At least it "died" in a good neighborhood on College in Overland Park. :) So, in the mean time I think we are going to have to rent a car till mine gets fixed.
More to come :).....
And this week I was able to go along. She is bigger now than one week ago and the pictures from the sonogram showed lots of movement from the baby. I was able to see her sucking on her hand and fingers then after a bit she stuck out her tongue. Birth mom right now only gets about two hours of sleep at night. So, she was relieved at the words the doctor had to say Monday afternoon...."Monday (Oct 27th) we will check to see if you are thin and dilated and by the end of the appointment you will have a date and time that we are going to induce you." So, our birth mom could possibly be induced as early as Oct 28th! The Doc. wants baby girl out because of birth moms diabetes. As, of right now we are all hopeful and excited to see our baby girl next week! All good news!
The bad news - My car broke down on our way back home from the doctors appointment and we are unable to get it fixed until Friday. At least it "died" in a good neighborhood on College in Overland Park. :) So, in the mean time I think we are going to have to rent a car till mine gets fixed.
More to come :).....
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Evangelina's Room
Slowly her room is coming together. I still want to add all the pink girl stuff of course :)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
last weeks Dr. appointment
Our baby girl, Evangelina, is now 8 lbs. in the womb and growing! All is well with baby and mom. She is having some contractions. It could be a matter of a week of two!
This coming Monday I will be able to get time off work to go with our birth mom to her next Dr. appointment. More to come...
This coming Monday I will be able to get time off work to go with our birth mom to her next Dr. appointment. More to come...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
over the past months
Well, much time has past and we now are only one month away from being proud parents through adoption! I have hesitated to write anything for a while but, now we have much news to tell. We have been matched with a birth mom.
Our first meeting with her was in the month of June. She was about four months pregnant at that time. This is not very common, typically we might meet a birth mom at seven months . We met in Kansas, in a apartment parking lot. We had to invite a English/Spanish speaking translator with us. The birth mom only speaks Spanish. We exchanged greetings and first names then, I handed her one of our profiles ( a seven page book of photos including a short letter to the birth mom). This birth mom of course could not read our profile.
*update: later that night, after our meeting and looking at our profile pictures, the birth mom went to lay down to rest. She told my mom that my face was in her mind even though awake. When my mom first told me that (My mom is bilingual and the birth mom shared this with her.)I did not know what to make of it. I was in awe. The Lord was doing, confirming, speaking something to the birth mom and I was thankful for it!
The following day we saw our adoption attorney in Kansas, Mr. Kenney. He was very optimistic about our plan and even though she is here illegally from Mexico the adoption could be done. He said this situation is not completely unheard of. Our first thoughts were that it could not possibly be a successful adoption.
As the months passed we gradually began to trust the situation and build a relationship with the birth mom. Her housing situation became unstable and we became actively involved. We moved her and her son to temporary housing. When that situation turned out unsuitable for them we saw the need to move her again. Maybe this is the moment when our adoption changed from semi-open to OPEN.
My mom and dad also became active participants in our adoption plans. They opened their home to the birth mom and son. Now all four of us are very much apart of the journey. It is truly amazing ... among other words! It all seems so hard to put into words sometimes. We make all of her doctor appointments for her and her son, we drive her to the appointments, to lunch , to go shopping, to go to the zoo, before she stopped working we would take her back and forth to work, you get the idea.
The wonderful thing is when my mom(grandma Silvia)was able to hear the baby's heart beat with the birth mom for the first time, and later see the baby; the sonogram confirmed that it was a GIRL!! Our birth mom also has gestational diabetes, so she was referred to a new doctor and this is now considered a high risk pregnancy. Every time she goes to an appointment it's at KU Med in Kansas. We are about a month away from meeting our baby girl and while I'm waiting for her, I'm fixing up her room and starting to make her LIFE BOOK. Our phone's are always on now, day and night. She could come early is what we are all thinking. We can't wait to meet her!
Thank you for reading a bit of our story, Elisabeth
Our first meeting with her was in the month of June. She was about four months pregnant at that time. This is not very common, typically we might meet a birth mom at seven months . We met in Kansas, in a apartment parking lot. We had to invite a English/Spanish speaking translator with us. The birth mom only speaks Spanish. We exchanged greetings and first names then, I handed her one of our profiles ( a seven page book of photos including a short letter to the birth mom). This birth mom of course could not read our profile.
*update: later that night, after our meeting and looking at our profile pictures, the birth mom went to lay down to rest. She told my mom that my face was in her mind even though awake. When my mom first told me that (My mom is bilingual and the birth mom shared this with her.)I did not know what to make of it. I was in awe. The Lord was doing, confirming, speaking something to the birth mom and I was thankful for it!
The following day we saw our adoption attorney in Kansas, Mr. Kenney. He was very optimistic about our plan and even though she is here illegally from Mexico the adoption could be done. He said this situation is not completely unheard of. Our first thoughts were that it could not possibly be a successful adoption.
As the months passed we gradually began to trust the situation and build a relationship with the birth mom. Her housing situation became unstable and we became actively involved. We moved her and her son to temporary housing. When that situation turned out unsuitable for them we saw the need to move her again. Maybe this is the moment when our adoption changed from semi-open to OPEN.
My mom and dad also became active participants in our adoption plans. They opened their home to the birth mom and son. Now all four of us are very much apart of the journey. It is truly amazing ... among other words! It all seems so hard to put into words sometimes. We make all of her doctor appointments for her and her son, we drive her to the appointments, to lunch , to go shopping, to go to the zoo, before she stopped working we would take her back and forth to work, you get the idea.
The wonderful thing is when my mom(grandma Silvia)was able to hear the baby's heart beat with the birth mom for the first time, and later see the baby; the sonogram confirmed that it was a GIRL!! Our birth mom also has gestational diabetes, so she was referred to a new doctor and this is now considered a high risk pregnancy. Every time she goes to an appointment it's at KU Med in Kansas. We are about a month away from meeting our baby girl and while I'm waiting for her, I'm fixing up her room and starting to make her LIFE BOOK. Our phone's are always on now, day and night. She could come early is what we are all thinking. We can't wait to meet her!
Thank you for reading a bit of our story, Elisabeth
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