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Hello forum friends,This week was a little better than last week. I am feeling a bit less overwhelmed and frustrated, although I've been feeling pretty sick and my blood pressure has been up, which isn't good. THANKS to all the suggestions for the prenatal vitamins, I'm using chewable Winnie the Pooh ones (they were cheapest!) instead because the NP at my OBGYN said as long as they had the right amount of folic acid and iron, they were fine. They've been MUCH better to take than those stupid giant pills were!!Also, thank you so much to all the kind people who have PMed me with suggestions of agencies that are not discriminatory against gay couples. I have looked at a few of them online and am planning to make some phone calls this weekend. I am not sure how it works with me living in one state and contacting an agency in another state, but I'm not moving so hopefully if I like an agency elsewhere, they can work with me even out-of-state. We shall see!I had to work late today because I came in late because I was up feeling sick last night. BUT it is now 6pm and I put in my extra hour, so I am heading home where we are having Game Night and playing Pictionary with some friends from church. I'm just hoping I can stay awake for it, I've been so darn tired and drained of energy that I've been going to bed super-early for weeks. I'm tempted to drink some Diet Coke but I've been avoiding caffeine since I found out I was pregnant because it doesn't seem like it would be good for the baby, not to mention my blood pressure, so I guess I will just try to stay up as late as I can all on my own. :)I hope everyone has a great weekend. I so, so appreciate all the posts and PMs and emails I've gotten from people on this website, they have meant a lot to me.Sincerely,Maralee
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Maralee,I'm glad to hear that you are feeling better. Many agencies will work with you regardless of your location. This shouldn't be a hurdle. From what I have read though, you might want to consider that a local agency will be able to provide you with in person support and counseling if you find that you need it at any time during your journey.Brooke
Hello! I have wrestled my bro away from the computer because I'm very excited to share that I have done it! I called the first set of potential adopting parents for the baby earlier today. They had a toll-free number listed on their website profile, and I got up the nerve after church today and called. It wasn't horrible. It wasn't perfection, I mean, this call certainly wasn't "the one" where I just KNOW that these people are what I am looking for 100%, but it was a start. I am going to be calling them again tomorrow night to talk some more.I have other couples on the list to contact too, and I was going to just send emails to start but I think now that I've done the call once, I can do it again. One thing these people asked me that put me off a little bit is if I'm having a girl or a boy. They then said they didn't care but were just curious. I have an Ultrasound scheduled for the week after next and I wasn't going to find out but now maybe I will. I just don't know. I guess I could find out and then not tell anyone, I just don't want it to make a difference to them if they are going to be the family for my baby.I spent most of yesterday either in bed or on the couch, with a bad headache and my blood pressure up. I felt better this morning, so I went to church and then made the phone call and after that, I took a 3 hour nap!! I just feel so much better after getting a phone call like that under my belt, I think I'd been scared of it and it was stressing me out without me even realizing it on a concious level.I promised my brother he could get back on the computer to IM his friends who are planning some sort of before-sports-preseason-training-starts last hurrah trip for next weekend, so I'd better let him get to it! I hope everybody here on the forums had a good weekend.Sincerely,Maralee
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