I am so terrible about writing on this blog! And my picture-posting skills are even worse! If I can't post pictures directly from my cell phone, it's way too much effort!
Anyways, the other day I was at my workout class, and I just realized one of the girls in my class works at my hair salon. She was saying how cute my new haircut is (I had loooong hair half-way down my back, and now it is in an A-line bob). I was telling her it was kind of a necessary haircut, because my hair had been falling out and it was also snapping and breaking off. All my bloodwork has come back normal. She says, "Well, it's probably falling out after the birth of your daughter."
Lol I looked at her and said, "Well, that's a great explanation, except for that we adopted her."
You should have seen the look on her face! Her jaw hit the ground! "She's adopted?? She looks....." and I cut her off and said, "Just like me, yes I know. Weird, huh!"
And besides, Cambria turned 18 months old today, and isn't that a little old to be blaming hair falling out on childbirth/hormones? Ahhh, if only the explanation would be that simple!
And then I was at a birthday party with Cambria yesterday. Her first princess birthday party that she was invited to- and not her brothers! The party was for the other girl in town with the same name, and C had so much fun there! She ran around playing the whole time and was giggling and laughing. It was so cute to watch her there! So one of the other moms who I know a little bit & am FB friends with asked me if we used an egg donor with C, because she looks just like our family. I'm assuming she meant that we must have chosen an egg donor who looks like our family and plus it would be Dave's biological child.
The funny thing is....before C came along, I had gone to the infertility specialist a couple times, and was going to do IVF but they strongly recommended that we use an egg donor. I picked out our egg donor, and she looked nothing like Dave, me, or our sons. So it's funny that while we didn't care if our baby looked like us, that we ended up with this precious baby girl that looks like us.
Why didn't we go through with the IVF you might be asking? The egg donor was in another cycle with another couple, and so we had to wait until she was done and recovered from their cycle to start our cycle. After having time to think and wait, D said he would prefer we adopt. Is that interesting or not? He would prefer to adopt where the child would have no biological relation to either of us (and thus, an even field of sorts) rather than do IVF with an egg donor, and the child would be biologically his. And then after having my hysterectomy last May, my reproductive organs were in bad shape. The feeling was I would have not have gotten pregnant with IVF and wasted that money.
It is all in God's hands. You make plans, and God laughs. He knows. He knows us so well.
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