Ultrasound

Open adoption is creating relationships I never would have dreamed about 5 or even 10 years ago!  I had mentioned before that Cambria's birthparents are expecting again....and they are placing this new baby for adoption too.  They have picked an adoptive family that lives closer to them, and I am facebook friends with the new adoptive mom.  I have texted with her and talked to her on the phone.  Really nice person she is, and I think she will be a great mom.  Our children are going to be full birth siblings.  Since I found out J was pregnant way back in June or July, I kept calling this new baby a girl.  I just had a feeling.  I was so bummed that this baby was going to be placed for adoption- my hubby said I was acting like I was the one who was going to be placing my child for adoption.  It was almost as if I was losing a piece of my daughter.  I wanted to keep the girls together, or at least in contact down the road.  But now that I've talked to the new prospective adoptive mom, I have no doubt the girls will have contact throughout their lives.  J had to go to the ER a while back, and told me she had an ultrasound done to make sure the baby was ok, and they couldn't be certain, but thought the baby was a girl.  (I was right! A ha!)   Then she sent me a letter telling me she picked out baby names for a boy and a girl.  Wha?  Wait~ I thought she said it was a girl!  She said they weren't certain of the gender.  I still felt in my gut the baby was a girl!  She invited us to visit her and the new adoptive family in the hospital when she has the baby........Welcome to open adoption in 2013!  And because of the kind of person I am, I would totally go if we didn't live on the other side of the country....I would love to get pictures of all of the 3 families coming together in the name of open adoption. 

J told me that the new adoptive parents were going to take her to get a 3-D ultrasound the other day (truth be told, I was a wee bit jealous because I don't have any 3-D ultrasound pictures of Cambria...but as my ever sensible husband said....V, you have the baby...isn't that enough?)  She said she would text me the pictures, and I could get them printed for Cambria's NC birthfamily scrapbook I have for her.   So guess who sent me a text picture the day of the 3-D ultrasound exclaiming "It's a GIRL!!!"  
The new adoptive mom.  Yep!  Not Cambria's birthmom.  Interesting?   I am so glad that the other adoptive mom and I have this kind of relationship already.   I am so happy for her that she is finally going to be a mother.  It's so weird how I feel so connected to them already because our daughters share the same blood.  Even though my daughter doesn't share my blood!  My daugher is going to have an abundance of siblings- biological and adopted.  I'm happy for her and what the future holds.