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Thanks for all your kind thoughts on the Inbetween thread. I am now feeling alot better about things and have a new positive outlook. I am feeling really excited now about the prospect of becoming a Mum and I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I actually managed to walk around the Babies R Us section in Toys R us yesterday without getting upset!!
I have made contact with our local adoption agency. We are booked to attend thier next open evening in January. We will then have to have all the interviews to be vetted and cleared and then have to do a training course. It may take 12 months. We have told them that we would like a babv of no more than 12 months, but they have suggested that we consider having siblings one a little bit older say 2/3 and their baby brother or sister, particularly as we would like two and there is no telling what the circumstances may be in a couple of years time when we would like a second. we have been told that if we register with another agency then we won't be able to do the course with our council. However, once we have done the course, the council have access to children in other counties.
I have told most of the people who knew we were having treatment and troubles so I have nearly conquered that. They are all so excited too. But I also feel now that if those spiteful few who constantly ask when is it my turn, I can now say with confidence that Rich and I can't have children and not get upset about it.
My next goal now is to lose two stone. I have spent so much time in the last 2.5 years thinking of ttc and nothing else I am going back to the old me, including drinking!!
We have started to plan some 'us' time. It is my 30th b'day next year so we are going to fly to Dublin for a long weekend, then today, we have chosen a hotel for our summer holiday in the Algarve and then we will go to Scotland with the dogs in September, and maybe with some new additions to the family.
I'll keep you posted on our journey, and would love it if others of you who are planning or going down this route to join in and share stories. Good luck girls.
Love
Karen x
Thanks for all your kind thoughts on the Inbetween thread. I am now feeling alot better about things and have a new positive outlook. I am feeling really excited now about the prospect of becoming a Mum and I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I actually managed to walk around the Babies R Us section in Toys R us yesterday without getting upset!!
I have made contact with our local adoption agency. We are booked to attend thier next open evening in January. We will then have to have all the interviews to be vetted and cleared and then have to do a training course. It may take 12 months. We have told them that we would like a babv of no more than 12 months, but they have suggested that we consider having siblings one a little bit older say 2/3 and their baby brother or sister, particularly as we would like two and there is no telling what the circumstances may be in a couple of years time when we would like a second. we have been told that if we register with another agency then we won't be able to do the course with our council. However, once we have done the course, the council have access to children in other counties.
I have told most of the people who knew we were having treatment and troubles so I have nearly conquered that. They are all so excited too. But I also feel now that if those spiteful few who constantly ask when is it my turn, I can now say with confidence that Rich and I can't have children and not get upset about it.
My next goal now is to lose two stone. I have spent so much time in the last 2.5 years thinking of ttc and nothing else I am going back to the old me, including drinking!!
We have started to plan some 'us' time. It is my 30th b'day next year so we are going to fly to Dublin for a long weekend, then today, we have chosen a hotel for our summer holiday in the Algarve and then we will go to Scotland with the dogs in September, and maybe with some new additions to the family.
I'll keep you posted on our journey, and would love it if others of you who are planning or going down this route to join in and share stories. Good luck girls.
Love
Karen x
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