ADOPTION UPDATE || Shoes and psychiatry... that’s a thing right? I kid, but today was another little milestone in our journey of becoming a family. . . • 1000 pages of forms filled in ✅ • Medical checkups ✅ and • Today our (my) first therapy session ✅ . . The medicals were quite straightforward and easy - a physical check up by our GP to make sure we’re in good health and physically (medically) ready to raise a little one. The visit with a clinical psychologist.... WHOLE OTHER THANG! First off this was my first ever solo therapy session and aside from the absolute terror that she’s going pick up on what a loon I actually am in the first 5 minutes, I also wasn’t sure what to expect from an adoption perspective. Would there be a test? What if the conversation we gave IS the test? HOW MUCH will I cry? (...cause me so obvs)... oh my word I’m going to fail!!! 😫 As it turns out it was easier than I expected. Soon @pierre_pressure and I will have our first joint therapy session to help prepare us for things like meeting the birth-mother, navigating questions and opinions of strangers, when to tell little one that he/she is adopted...and a host of other issues. . . The purpose of these sessions is not to “test” prospective adoption patents, but rather to help prepare us for the next part, which can get pretty emotional, and to guide and support us through the process. So, yes there was crying (but if you know me that’s a Tuesday or me 😂), but overall it was such a great experience and driving away after, I was absolutely overwhelmed (yes more crying) that all these people are so invested in making the process of adoption healthy and positive for everyone involved. I truly feel like we have a village of people supporting and guiding us along this path and I am more certain than ever that this our destiny as a couple. . . To celebrate this next step it seemed fitting to get bub his/her first pair of kicks, and officially kick-off our baby-prepping! . . #adoptionjourney #adoption #parentsinthemaking #mybabyshoes #herewegobaby https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pfCCTpLXU/?igshid=1vkxnlw28n4h3
