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Well she's pregnant already. So its too late for the boy vibes, shoot. BUT I can't wait to hear what she's having! I just bet its a boy...hehe
28 Aug 2010 5:01 AM
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LOL!Well she already sends them to a private school, but there are boys there. However, I've seen their school recesses, and as is norm, the girls play together and the boys typically play together - not by rule, but just by choice. Her oldest is only about 10 I think? So she'll have an interesting time ahead of her! Eventually these girls are going to have to meet a boy, and get married som...
27 Aug 2010 9:01 PM
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So I asked my friend to watch my five boys for an hour next week. She has watched them before and doesn't have a problem with it. She has two daughers and two sons herself. However, then she said that her sister, who has three daughters (or maybe 4?) is having her watch her girls that day also and I would need to pick my boys up before she got here if possible. My friend's sister apparently ...
27 Aug 2010 8:19 PM
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For what its worth, I'm not a big breakfast eater and probably skip breakfast more then I eat it...and I've had five boys. ;)So I'm not sure I see how skipping breakfast helps with a girl conception?Best of luck to you!
26 Aug 2010 4:46 PM
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Oh yeah I think you're right. It was on the positively adopted website and I remember now something about adopting two children at once? But I don't know if it specified HIV or not.However, there IS an adoption tax credit. I'm just not sure how much it is. I want to say somewhere around $10,000?
03 Jun 2010 8:58 PM
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Also, someone just posted something a couple days ago in another thread about how you can have a virtually free adoption if you start the process like NOW and have it finalized by this year or next. The tax credit is going to be really high, and even for a $25,000 + adoption, you could potentionally get 95% of that back. I wanted to mention fostering too...the cost is way way low, in so...
03 Jun 2010 7:13 PM
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And then you have my biological son from a previous relationship - despite my fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes - his half Native American side of him came out in medium-dark skin, dark brown eyes, and dark brown hair. His brothers (from my husband) all have blonde hair and blue eyes. Just saying that families come in all shapes and colors - biological or adoptive.
03 Jun 2010 7:06 PM
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(irritated right now! I just typed out a whole post,almost sent send and then my baby snuck up on me and pushed a key on my keyboard that went back to the last screen and I lost everything!)Anyway...gotta make this quick, my time on the computer is up, kids need me...lolI know the income requirements for international adoption, and we don't qualify until Dh gets his RN and starts that career...
31 May 2010 7:55 PM
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Wow that red hair is just amazing! :)She's a cutie pie!
31 May 2010 6:51 PM
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Great idea! I have more then one GD baby though..... ;) My first, well I didn't care either way. I knew he wouldn't be my last. My second however I wanted a girl and so on for the third, fourth and fifth.Of course, now that they're here - I wouldn't have it any other way!! And I have to add that never did I regret them or experience resentment towards them. Rather I was mourning the loss of ...
28 May 2010 9:05 PM
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*hugs* It sounds like you're doing great!My third son was the hardest to deal with as far as GD. I was SO convinced he was a girl, and with my first and second sons I kept my mind open, knowing the baby could just as easily have been a boy. In fact I pretty much prepared myself for a boy with my second child.However when my third child came along, I had such a strong feeling that he wa...
28 May 2010 8:42 PM
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Dragging up an old post here - but I thought it was interesting. If its helps any - my parents wanted a boy desperately to carry on my dad's name (and his dad's name and so on...) they had three girls before they finally had my brother. Due to many medical concerns, they lost one of their daughters at birth and my brother was very sick and premature as well.I am their first born and I have fi...
28 May 2010 8:33 PM
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I would start by contacting your local fertility clinics?
28 May 2010 8:24 PM
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Well I don't have three boys, I have five - and I can only speak for myself. But YES I love all of my boys and I am happy with them. Of course I still would like to have a daughter someday, however. ;)I love watching my boys interact with eachother, the whole brother thing is pretty special. I also love how unique each child is. None of them are the same, and it makes life fun and exciting! ...
26 May 2010 9:15 PM
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*hugs* to you! I know the bitterness that you talk about. I find myself sometimes feeling bitter towards mixed gender families, and especially to families that had two or three boys and had a girl. I guess I should say, I'm happy for THEM, but I HATE the comments. Its the comments that make me bitter, like when my cousin who has a daughter just had a son...the comments, "oh how perfect! So y...
25 May 2010 7:59 AM
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I think its much scarier thinking about all these babies and children growing up homeless or worse in developing countries such as Ethopia, just because no one watned to adopt them due to their manageable disease. Did you read that doctors actually prefer to treat HIV to diabetes? HIV is spreading like WILDFIRE in Africa. I think it not only the responsible thing to do, but our duty, to help...
24 May 2010 8:35 PM
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My friend who I talked about earlier, has been a foster parent to a baby boy since he was just a couple weeks old. They actually were the ones to pick him up from the hospital and bring him home (he had health issues, so he was in the hospital for a couple weeks after his birth). This little boy has down syndrome, and a few months ago they learned that he has leukemia also. My friend has bee...
21 May 2010 8:58 PM
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Awww my heart aches looking at them! I just will keep praying for our plans to go as planned and for us to be finally able to adopt in a few years. *sigh*
20 May 2010 5:45 AM
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I also truly believe that things happen for a reason and that certain people and events are put in our life...but that could be me looking for those "coincidences". Anyway, before we were seriously even talking adoption - a sort of family member of a family member (confusing? haha) had adopted a little boy from Ethiopia. We had heard about it through our family member and I had been followin...
11 May 2010 5:31 AM
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Has anyone heard of it? After reading Seegal's post, it really got me thinking about HIV+ children and why I have never considered them before (for adoption), and if all the things I thought were true were valid points. They were NOT. All the myths or the reasons I thought I could never adopt an HIV+ baby were totally untrue.What really got me is reading that HIV is MORE manageable then diab...
11 May 2010 12:26 AM
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I started getting excited about adoption again last night, and then I came across the income guidelines for international adoption that I must have "overlooked". uggh. Our income would be fine if we only had one or two kids...but with five kids, we don't make enough YET. Thankfully YET is the keyword. My husband currently is "only" a CNA and doing private home health care for one man. But it...
08 May 2010 7:58 PM
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Thanks!I found particularly interesting the last part - that HIV people are not legally required to tell even dentists! That's another thing I was thinking about. If we ended up deciding to adopt an HIV+ child...would we tell anyone? Should we? What do you think?I would be more likely to want to NOT tell anyone because of the very reason of the myths and people's reactions. Of course the chi...
08 May 2010 1:47 AM
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I know that what I mostly know, or think I know, about HIV is probably wrong. Thinking about it, I really don't know much about HIV? How long before it turns into AIDS? Or can it stay as HIV for a very very long time with proper care? Will it? Or in some cases, even WITH proper care and the right meds does it "turn into" (for lack of better term) full blown AIDS? Are there any other delays o...
07 May 2010 11:27 PM
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Under Russia? I don't see anyone under HIV, Russia other then a little boy, Avery.
07 May 2010 10:46 PM
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If it was a couple years from now, and we had the money or resources - I'd JUMP at the chance. Its so hard to have to wait to just wait some more. I bet she's beautiful though, and will find a wonderful home in no time!
07 May 2010 10:42 PM
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