Counting down..

Almost 35 weeks (Sunday)...  All I know is that after Christmas and then New Years our potential BM will be 38 weeks and we will hopefully have some plans in place for being there for the birth of our hopeful little boy!  How exciting - it's getting closer!!  I'm feeling more excited about meeting him as the date draws near.  The past four weeks, especially with this pumping schedule, have flown by and I can't imagine how fast the next four weeks will be for us.  There is so much to do and so much we need  - I feel like I should pack my hospital bag - LOL!!  After all, we will be staying in the hospital, in our own room, with our hopeful baby!  I had no idea about that by the way, until I called the hospital a few weeks back to inquire some things and they advised me that they give adoptive parents their own room.  That put my mind at ease, as I was confused about how that all would work.  We still don't know how it's all going to work with Lola yet though.  We had a wonderful friend offer to keep Lola until we left the hospital and then she would fly her down to us, she would fly back and Lola would be with us until we are able to leave the state which could be anywhere from 3 days -10 days.  Who knows!  That is a lot to ask of someone though.  It'd be nice if we had family here to help us out, these are the times that are tough on us living so far from our family. 

I would just like to put out there that the ladies in the lactation department at one of our downtown hospitals have been absolutely wonderful to me.  I had no expectations but they have surpassed any.  They have probably been the warmest of ladies to me in this experience, not knocking all you who do support us :)  But man are they supportive and compassionate.  Every time I walk in there, they are waiting for me, they know who I am, they tell me how wonderful I'm doing, they remember our hopeful babies due date, they are excited for us and I am just grateful.  I have felt special every time I walk in there.  I guess in this whole process of non-returned phone calls, feeling neglected, and the list goes on -they are on their game and it's very refreshing, it just wasn't something I expected and what a wonderful surprise, someone on their game and ready for me that advocates for me!!  Love them!  I especially love them because she gave me an exercise to do last night which allowed for me to sleep 5 hours in a ROW.  Other than my body already adjusting to getting up every 2-3, it was nice.  I need to call her today and give her my results and see if this is something I can continue to do or was it just a one night deal..hmm..hoping I can do that again :)

Joe and I discussed talking to Lola about this match.  I think around the first of the year we will gently let her know that we are working with a birth family, not make a big deal of it and not make any promises just that there is a possibility.  We want her to be somewhat prepared and not too surprised so giving her a couple weeks to digest feels right to us.