<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Adoption stress @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Adoption stress) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:45:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Adoption stress @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>3 years ago today, I became Max&apos;s mother</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_years_ago_today_i_became_maxs_mother.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_years_ago_today_i_became_maxs_mother.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=3%5Fyears%5Fago%5Ftoday%5Fi%5Fbecame%5Fmaxs%5Fmother</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was thinking about this last night as I was going to sleep.&nbsp; With the time zone difference, I was already into today then and thinking about how I&#39;d have just have been getting up and getting ready for our court date.&nbsp; Here&#39;s a sn]]></description><category>russian adoption</category><category>adoption</category><category>russia</category></item><item><title>We&apos;re back from Russia</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/were_back_from_russia.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/were_back_from_russia.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=were%5Fback%5Ffrom%5Frussia</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Greetings from the land of the sleepless (that&#39;s us, not Max).  Everything went very smoothly in Russia, and Maxwell Dmitri Potter became a citizen of the United States Friday night about 7:30 Chicago time when the airplane touched down.He&#39;s]]></description></item><item><title>Apostille argh</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/apostille_argh.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/apostille_argh.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=apostille%5Fargh</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today was very frustrating. I drove to Lansing despite fatigue and dizziness just to get J.&#39;s medical form (the third version of this same form as they keep expiring) we need apostilled, but the lady at the Office of the Great Seal wouldn&#39;t d]]></description></item><item><title>Last minute scrambling</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/last_minute_scrambling.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/last_minute_scrambling.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=last%5Fminute%5Fscrambling</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So yesterday my agency writes me an email to tell me that the notarized refusal we faxed in for the second baby they referred us has to be apostilled and in Minnesota by Thursday in order to be hand-carried to Russia on Friday.[pause to remember hist]]></description></item><item><title>God,</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/god.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/god.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=god</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you&#39;re out there, and you care about J. and me even just a little bit, about this very personal issue of our making a family, please just let everything fall into place in the next 8 or so weeks, okay? Please? I don&#39;t know if I can take be]]></description></item><item><title>Mini cardiac-infarction this morning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/mini_cardiacinfarction_this_morning.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/mini_cardiacinfarction_this_morning.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mini%5Fcardiacinfarction%5Fthis%5Fmorning</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The saga continues...regarding my medical statement. Monday I went to see the doctor about my endometriosis and asked him to redo my medical statement without the mental/nervous diagnoses on it. I thought this would be okay because the only reason th]]></description></item><item><title>More on the frustrations of the referral system</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/more_on_the_frustrations_of_the_referral_system.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/more_on_the_frustrations_of_the_referral_system.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Fon%5Fthe%5Ffrustrations%5Fof%5Fthe%5Freferral%5Fsystem</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[J. and I talked with our agency tonight, and it made me feel a little better, although frankly there&#39;s absolutely nothing that my agency director can do to influence the policy of the Yaroslavl Adoption Center.I did learn that we aren&#39;t the o]]></description></item><item><title>Back to work</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_to_work.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_to_work.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Fto%5Fwork</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...after my three-day weekend, and it&#39;s just as well. We had a lovely time up north with J.&#39;s family. The weather was sunny and warm, but not hot, and I got lots of sleeping, reading, and relaxing in. Then yesterday I was home, and all of my]]></description></item><item><title>Anxious week</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/anxious_week.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/anxious_week.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=anxious%5Fweek</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After running a low grade fever for four days, J. went to see his gastroenterologist Monday and had a CAT scan done of his colon Tuesday. I had some anxious moments wondering if the insurance was going to pay for it since his specialist is out of net]]></description></item><item><title>Risk averse</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/risk_averse.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/risk_averse.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=risk%5Faverse</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So now that Summer Reading is over, I can concentrate all my worrying on our upcoming adoption. I&#39;m excited about our next referral, but this whole process is so incredibly OUTSIDE MY COMFORT ZONE it&#39;s making me a wreck.The problem is, I&#39;]]></description></item><item><title>Stressing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/stressing.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/stressing.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=stressing</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s a good thing that I was so busy with the small stuff of keeping and improving our house this weekend, otherwise the anxiety might have taken over. I&#39;m trying to take a &quot;hands off&quot; approach to this referral until we get our addi]]></description></item><item><title>Angst over referral</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/angst_over_referral.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/angst_over_referral.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=angst%5Fover%5Freferral</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After researching the specific terms and asking my mom (who is a nurse) for help, it sounds to me as if the birthmother had a staph-B infection in the vaginal canal from which the baby got meningitis, and the meningitis resulted in head swelling. Als]]></description><category>russian adoption</category></item><item><title>Received referral of baby boy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/received_referral_of_baby_boy.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/received_referral_of_baby_boy.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=received%5Freferral%5Fof%5Fbaby%5Fboy</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm not sure how much of this info I'm allowed to share with others (strange because this referral is still anonymous, really), but in case the Russian Government is spying in (so, so unlikely) I will be discreet. I just got an email from our]]></description><category>russian adoption</category></item><item><title>Russia and AIDS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/russia_and_aids.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/russia_and_aids.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=russia%5Fand%5Faids</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This put me in a tailspin of worry today.  Very sad news for Russia, a country which desperately needs population growth.Did some research today about infants and HIV. Apparently it&#39;s very hard to detect HIV in infants if you don&#39;t do exactly]]></description></item><item><title>Russian adoption rumors</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/russian_adoption_rumors.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/russian_adoption_rumors.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=russian%5Fadoption%5Frumors</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So yesterday I read this message on one of my adoption lists:&quot;Dear Listmates - I&#39;m hoping some of you have some information on this topic. Here is the background. I am waiting to get a referral from Kras for my second Russian adoption.I have]]></description></item><item><title>Is everyone pregnant?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_everyone_pregnant.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_everyone_pregnant.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=is%5Feveryone%5Fpregnant</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Does it seem like everyone is having a baby?First there's this week's People magazine. Overkill on this in a big way. I think this is like the bazillionth story they've run on Kate Hudson's pregnancy and childbirth. Ugh.Then my mom te]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Fretting</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/fretting.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/fretting.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fretting</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tonight I&#39;ve been reading up on FAS/FAE. The scariest part of reading up on this stuff is some of it is undetectable until the kids get into a social setting like preschool. FAS has a physical component - for a child to be diagnosed with FAS, the]]></description></item><item><title>Documents found</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/documents_found.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/documents_found.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=documents%5Ffound</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Josie at the Office of the Great Seal just called. She found our documents. Yay! The only bad thing is that two of our documents (she couldn&#39;t say which because the packet was already sealed) couldn&#39;t be processed. So we&#39;ll have to do tho]]></description></item><item><title>Update %$#@!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/update_.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/update_.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=update%5F</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, after much headache, I&#39;ve found out that1) The Office of the Great Seal says they shipped it out the 29th and2) UPS never got it.Now I have to call back the OOTGS and ask them how they sent a phantom package. I can&#39;t do it now because t]]></description></item><item><title>Please say they didn&apos;t lose my entire dossier...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/please_say_they_didnt_lose_my_entire_dossier.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/please_say_they_didnt_lose_my_entire_dossier.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=please%5Fsay%5Fthey%5Fdidnt%5Flose%5Fmy%5Fentire%5Fdossier</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[J. just called to tell me that my UPS package from the Office of the Great Seal had arrived, and I was thrilled until I realized that this was the second packet I&#39;d mailed - the one with only the homestudies in it. The first package still has not]]></description></item></channel></rss>