I'm now considering myself done with the first "trimester" of this paper pregnancy! We submitted our first Dossier, and are now officially in the "waiting" phase for a referral. Yeah!!!
They say 2 to 5 months is typical - usually closer to 5 for an infant girl (that is what we requested). I think after waiting so long with China and feeling like it would never happen, the whole possibility of truly getting a child is only starting to hit us now. I suppose I felt the same way with my pregnancies too. I was always wary of being too confident in the first trimester, and it didn't feel real until I started to get huge.
This time around there are no endless ob/gyn visits, no cramps or gas or hemorrhoids to worry about. No ill-fitting clothes (at least, not for any good reason), and pregnancy books to obsess over. There is, however, getting to know the Notary at the bank on a first-name basis, endless visits to FedEx/Kinkos, paper cuts, sore hands from signing a zillion papers, and adoption books to obsess over.
One thing that remains the same is that the house is turned upside down as we shift furniture and begin the move to make Natalie a "big girl" room and create a nursery for the baby. One more baby seems to mean that much more chaos. It is exciting and scary, and wonderful.
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