{"id":187,"date":"2009-10-11T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-10-11T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:38:11","slug":"a-gestation-period-of-indeterminate-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"a gestation period of indeterminate length"},"content":{"rendered":"

and now we wait.\u00a0 yes, it COULD be a short wait, but our adoption agency’s forum recently posted a message stating that most of the birthmothers coming in to the agency have been requesting childless couples who live in Texas.\u00a0 So it could be a looooong wait.\u00a0 There could be lots of bumps along the way.\u00a0 Recently, I read (and began subscribing to) this blog <\/a>which has a very sobering story about one couple’s wait.\u00a0 They’ve been chosen twice and both times the birthmother decided, in the very end, to parent her own child.\u00a0 I read this blogger’s story and found myself thinking, “this could totally happen to me.\u00a0 this person has done nothing differently than I would and this could be my story.”\u00a0 granted, there are also lots of other happy stories about people getting matched right away with a birthmother who is a perfect fit for their family… but there are also stories about people getting pregnant on the first try, and people getting pregnant on their first IVF, and so, if I seem a little reserved in my excitement about being done with the initial paperwork phase, I hope you’ll understand.\u00a0 I’m just trying to protect myself and be realistic.\u00a0 Even if we don’t have a birthmother who changes her mind, this could still be a long wait.\u00a0 I’ve got plenty of distraction to keep me busy in the meantime, but I could be waiting for this baby much longer than the traditional nine months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

and now we wait.\u00a0 yes, it COULD be a short wait, but our adoption agency’s forum recently posted a message stating that most of the birthmothers coming in to the agency have been requesting childless couples who live in Texas.\u00a0 So it could be a looooong wait.\u00a0 There could be lots of bumps along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}