Korbin loves Kirke's mom. He and Mimi are inseparable while she's here or we're visiting down there. Yesterday was the end of her visit and we kept warning him that she was going back home. We didn't want a big dramatic goodbye scene with him saying "why didn't you tell me she was leaving"!
We got to the airport and Korbin got out to hug Mimi and say goodbye and he says:
"Bye Mimi, I hope you make it alive!"
Wow, where does he get this stuff from!
Well I've been taking Reglan for a couple weeks now and I'm pumping a few times a day trying to induce lactation without pregnancy. It's tough. It's uncomfortable. It's time consuming. But most importantly it's totally worth it to get this to work.
Today was a breakthrough. I feel like I've been drilling for oil and finally struck! Today there was milk! Thank God because I've been getting discouraged and ready to throw in the towel. This is much harder than I expected it to be emotionally.
I was also told that the pediatricians at the hospital that Baby Best will be born in have the right to deny me breastfeeding the baby. They have to approve it. No one is familiar with adoptive breastfeeding and it's aggravating. There's no denying the benefits of breast milk versus formula. You can buy breast milk from milk banks and they even have groups that provide milk to medically fragile children. So I'm not sure why ME breastfeeding my adopted daughter would be a problem. But I do know it's not going to be because I won't let it. The birth mom is supportive of it and that's all that should matter while we're in the hospital.
It's controversial to breastfeed your own birth children so breastfeeding an adoptive baby is going to raise some eyebrows.
I'm not going to let it get to me.
We talked to our lawyer on Friday about some concerns we've been having that I can't mention here because I want to protect the privacy of Jane as well as our own. But the good news is that the lawyer certain that there is nothing that's going to stand in the way of this adoption taking place as easily as we had hoped aside from of course Jane changing her mind. But we're certain that she's not going to do that. She and I talk nearly every day and she's anxious to be the one who's able to make our family complete by adding a little girl to our world!
We are ready for the baby other than clothes. We have two boys who are super environmental and we're going to use either cloth diapers or gDiapers with our daughter. We like the idea of saving money and doing our share for the environment.
The pumping is still going the same. I've added the herb fenugreek twice a day. It could take weeks to start actually producing milk and not just small drops of whatever. I've ordered a book about adoptive breastfeeding and plan to attend the next local meeting of the La Leche League International.
So everything is going perfect and a huge weight was lifted from our shoulders as well as Jane's and the rest of our families. It's the greatest feeling ever to have the confirmation that our daughter will be ours in about 3 short months!!
I have been spending entirely too much time being a dork and playing Farmville on Facebook and playing over there catching up with old friends I never thought I'd wonder about and ones I wonder about frequently.
This video is from the 19th when we told the boys that we having a girl. Enjoy!
We're very very excited that we're going to be adding some pink to this very blue family! The ultrasound tech said everything appears fine and she's tracking the due date the same as first estimated March 23!
