Auntie Al came to visit! Svea was so happy to meet her Auntie Al and had fun visiting different coffee shops, antique shopping, running errands and playing dress up. At 4 weeks, Svea took her first road trip to Rockford, IL to visit Bo's family and attend her baby shower. Such a sweet time meeting her relatives for the first time! Bo and I had no idea what to expect in traveling with her, but we're happy to report she did swimmingly and while we had to pack triple the stuff that we normally do, we can't wait to do more traveling with her.
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Svea Louise has arrived!! She was born Thursday, August 18th at 8 pounds 2 ounces, 22 inches long. We are overjoyed with our precious little bundle and can't believe we're finally parents! Svea has captured our hearts and we're forever changed. For those that like to read birth stories... I was getting ready for work on Thurs am and was starting to breathe through more intense contractions. I was starting to think it would be really awkward to have to breathe through these contractions during my morning meetings and decided to track a few contractions using my phone app just to see where things were at. After 5 rounds, my phone screen went blank and said "Go to hospital immediately!" In an utter panic I told Bo that my phone was telling us it was time! Contractions were coming every 1-3 minutes... the books had told us to go in once they were at 5 min apart- when did that happen? We drove the bumpy, long 30 min drive to the hospital. I had forgotten how to breathe correctly and by the time we arrived I was near panic from huffing and puffing. The intensity and pressure! I can't even explain it. Nurse had me labor in tub for an hour when we first arrived and then promptly told us that I was ready to start pushing. I had told my doc that the only thing I didn't want was to do an epidural and have a c-section. But after 5 hours of pushing, doc recommended epidural. Not sure why I was trying to deny it. Sweet bliss once that settled in! After a few more hours, doc informed us that baby may be developing an infection due to a variety of concerns they had and recommended c-section as we were running out of time. I caved and 15 min later, our sweet baby girl made her grand entrance! Not the birthing plan I was expecting as I never envisioned that a c-section would be the route we'd go, but it is what it is and we're so happy and grateful that Svea arrived healthy!
Bo's sister, Sara, came all the way from Boston to spend a week with us. We had a great time showing her around Minneapolis and trying to convince her to move here in the future! We were hoping to have baby by now so that she could meet the little one. But so far, I'm still preg... We had no idea what was coming, although it should have clued us in to the madness of the 4th when people started setting out their lawn chairs on the sidewalks to save a seat a week before the parade! We had several lovely friends come out and enjoy the parade with us. It's a little bit like America threw up on our town. I think Bo and I were the only ones that didn't have an American flag hanging off our house. Oops! I have so enjoyed being pregnant so far and am so grateful to be able to experience this. We've reached 27 weeks this week! Lots of baby kicks and wiggles and movement abound. We decided to not find out the gender, which goes against every Type-A planning bone in my body, but we figured we've waited this long, what's a few more months. It took me a long time to really let go of our adoption dream for this year and come to grips with the fact that we have to wait until Feb 2017 to pursue it again. God has a funny way of working things out and I don't know that I'll ever understand His timing. I realized early on that my daily prayers had changed from "trusting God/trusting His timing" to "proclaiming He will give us this baby." It's FOR REAL happening, folks!! We've been rather MIA on our blog lately. Turns out when you're following God's direction to adopt, he decides to bless you with a biological baby too! What!? We're beyond excited, though we were cautious at first. We're at 21 weeks now and recently had the big 20 week ultrasound. This is the farthest we've made it in a pregnancy and it was so incredible to see how big the baby is and to see it wiggling about!
I felt the baby kicking for the first time last night and whoa did the world stop! To feel the movement on the inside and the out was wild. I frantically grabbed Bo's hand and we sat there giggling away every time there was a kick. It all just seems surreal and we're so grateful for this opportunity. Where does this leave adoption plans? Our adoption agency decided to put us on hold for a year since we're pregnant. This was not our choice (nor were we included in this decision, but we won't go there). We're very disappointed to have to put our adoption on hold, to say the least. We really feel that God wants us to adopt and we're praying for clarity and peace as we come to realize that the timing may be longer then we wanted. The stage that we're at in our adoption will remain at that. The fees that we've paid will carry over to next year and we'll be able to pickup where we left off. It will just take longer than we originally anticipated. That being said, we are able to still proceed with adopting during this season if we find a birth mom on our own. So please continue to help us spread the word! We've printed more cards and are placing them in coffee shops, libraries and community colleges. If you'd like to post a card for us, or can pass it on to someone, let us know! |
Adoption UpdateOur adoption has been put on hold until Spring 2017. Stay tuned for more updates!
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September 2016
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