<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Adoption stress @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 grerp.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle>(Adoption stress) </subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-15T17:42:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/read/adoption_stress.rss"/><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2008-11-23:links.412140287</id><title>So we didn&apos;t get picked...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/so_we_didnt_get_picked.htm"><![CDATA[I found out Monday that the birthmother who was looking at our profile picked another couple instead.&nbsp; Because they were Protestant and we were Catholic.&nbsp; Interesting.After having lived on pins and needles wondering if my Thanksgiving and g]]></content><dc:subject>domestic adoption</dc:subject><dc:subject>disappointment</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/so_we_didnt_get_picked.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-11-23T01:59:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-23T01:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2008-11-12:links.412138632</id><title>Frustrated</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/frustrated.htm"><![CDATA[Today I was in a holy terror of a mood.For two weeks now we&#39;ve had our profiles out there, to be perused by 3 different couples looking to place their children.&nbsp; Two of the couples passed on our profile, but the third has lingered in making]]></content><dc:subject>adoption</dc:subject><dc:subject>domestic adoption</dc:subject><dc:subject>adoption stress</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/frustrated.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-11-12T02:03:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-12T02:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2008-11-06:links.412137599</id><title>Trying to focus on the positive</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/trying_to_focus_on_the_positive.htm"><![CDATA[Okay, the last few days haven&#39;t been so great.&nbsp; All About Romance has experienced a series of site downages due to a host transfer, and I&#39;ve sometimes felt like I&#39;ve been glued to the phone.&nbsp; Then there&#39;s the election.&nbsp;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/trying_to_focus_on_the_positive.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2008-11-06T04:41:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-06T04:41:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2007-10-27:links.412054487</id><title>3 years ago today, I became Max&apos;s mother</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_years_ago_today_i_became_maxs_mother.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>russian adoption</dc:subject><dc:subject>adoption</dc:subject><dc:subject>russia</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/3_years_ago_today_i_became_maxs_mother.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2007-10-27T02:38:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-27T02:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-11-01:links.411863876</id><title>We&apos;re back from Russia</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/were_back_from_russia.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/were_back_from_russia.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-11-01T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-11-01T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-09-18:links.411864219</id><title>Apostille argh</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/apostille_argh.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/apostille_argh.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-09-18T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-09-18T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-09-01:links.411863098</id><title>Last minute scrambling</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/last_minute_scrambling.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/last_minute_scrambling.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-09-01T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-09-01T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-08-27:links.411863094</id><title>God,</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/god.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/god.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-08-27T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-08-27T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-08-27:links.411863091</id><title>Mini cardiac-infarction this morning</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/mini_cardiacinfarction_this_morning.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/mini_cardiacinfarction_this_morning.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-08-27T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-08-27T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-08-21:links.411863083</id><title>More on the frustrations of the referral system</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/more_on_the_frustrations_of_the_referral_system.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/more_on_the_frustrations_of_the_referral_system.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-08-21T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-08-21T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-08-18:links.411863075</id><title>Back to work</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_to_work.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_to_work.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-08-18T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-08-18T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-08-14:links.411863069</id><title>Anxious week</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/anxious_week.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/anxious_week.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-08-14T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-08-14T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-08-10:links.411863062</id><title>Risk averse</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/risk_averse.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/risk_averse.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-08-10T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-08-10T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-07-20:links.411860067</id><title>Stressing</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/stressing.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/stressing.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-07-20T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-07-20T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-07-17:links.411859061</id><title>Angst over referral</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/angst_over_referral.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>russian adoption</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/angst_over_referral.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-07-17T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-07-17T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-07-16:links.411859059</id><title>Received referral of baby boy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/received_referral_of_baby_boy.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>russian adoption</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/received_referral_of_baby_boy.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-07-16T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-07-16T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-06-14:links.411856880</id><title>Russia and AIDS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/russia_and_aids.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/russia_and_aids.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-06-14T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-06-14T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-06-05:links.411855719</id><title>Russian adoption rumors</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/russian_adoption_rumors.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/russian_adoption_rumors.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-06-05T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-06-05T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-05-25:links.411858001</id><title>Is everyone pregnant?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_everyone_pregnant.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>infertility</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_everyone_pregnant.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-05-25T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-05-25T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:grerp.blog-city.com,2004-04-23:links.411853547</id><title>Fretting</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://grerp.blog-city.com/fretting.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://grerp.blog-city.com/fretting.htm"/><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><author><name>AAR Rachel</name></author><updated>2004-04-23T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2004-04-23T04:59:00Z</published></entry></feed>