Here is a more recent picture of the nursery.
Nursery Update
Placement Pending!
If you’ve looked at our online profile lately you’ll notice that it now says “Placement Pending.” We were matched in August and decided to keep it a little low key until it got a little closer to the due date. The birthmother we are matched with is due on Oct. 9, so really, it could be any day now. We are very excited and anxious about the upcoming arrival and we will let everyone know when it is official.
Nursery
We have started painting the nursery and I decided we should post a picture here. We’ll post more as the nursery is finished, but here is one to start you out. If you can’t tell from the picture, the top is a sky blue and the bottom is a primary red. Our theme for the nursery is the alphabet. We think it’s turning out really nice so far and we can’t wait to see what it looks like when we’re completely finished!! Enjoy the picture and we’ll post more later.
Bonding with Baby
It’s been a long time since we posted, so I decided to post on a topic that has come up during many of our previous meetings and sessions throughout this adoption process. Bonding is an important issue with all new parents. Throughout our homestudy process and through articles we have read, we have come across a few suggestions on bonding with an adopted child. One suggestion that appears most often is that adoptive parents should limit the number of people who feed the baby. Feeding time is one of the most intimate times in a newborn’s life and it is important for the adoptive parents to experience that intimacy, whether or not the mother is planning to breastfeed. So, in light of this, please don’t be offended if we don’t offer to let you feed the new baby…we really are just trying to bond with our child.
Here are some articles that have further suggestions on how to bond with an adopted child.