The infamous information evening....
We find ourselves 10
minutes early for the information evening and we try and sit quietly
waiting for the meeting to start. We are both in real silly moods and
looking back now, I can see we were both just nervous and that was
just "our little way of dealing with it" I cast my eye around the
room. A real strange mix of couples and I find myself wondering what
each of their special stories or journeys have been like. But it
seems inappropriate to just start randomly talking to anyone about
their circumstances for being here, so we sit quietly, stifling our
giggles.
The evening is short
and informative, sadly with no cake. They talk about the psychological
development of a baby's brain and the effects that trauma and
attachment disorders have on them. Then we have a couple of adoptive
parents in to give us the real life low-down on the adoption
experience. A new young mum really catches my attention, she jokes
about the two little terrors she has adopted . She says how she
found the uncertainty of fertility treatments hard to cope with but
with adoption, at least you know there will be a pot of gold at the
end of that rainbow. And that she still doesn't know whether that
little pot of gold really doesn't like tuna or is just playing up. We
leave feeling giddy...this feels so right but we know we have a long wait
ahead of us. Due to previous miscarriages and fertility treatments,
they want us to wait until June 2012 before we officially put in our
application. I spend my time drooling over the pages of the
Hummingbird Bakery book and test a new Coffee and Walnut Cake. Totally totally indulgent and lush and
it feels good to put fertility treatments behind me and embrace the
humble caffeine again.
Coffee and Walnut Cake...
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