[Fran27]

Wow. Get busy for a week and stop reading the forum regularly and this thread is already 5 pages long. I hope the wait will be short for all of us.

Can I join the 'going crazy after one month' club?

About the name thing, I really like the idea of asking the pbmom's opinion. But we're mostly decided on Elizabeth (Lisa) Sarah for a girl and Christopher for a boy... except dh wants the middle name to be Wolf and I don't like it. I'd rather use Mark, which is also one of his dad's names. We keep arguing and I just don't understand why he wants to impose a name I don't like for OUR child. Ok, I did agree to it a few months ago, but I changed my mind. Am I not allowed to change my mind?

Nursery-wise, we have most of everything we will need for the first months. I even washed clothes, sheets etc (the clothes were all used from a consignment shop anyway), but the crib isn't set yet as we will want it in our bedroom the first few months and we'd rather have the extra space for now (the nursery is upstairs and our bedroom downstairs so it's not very handy otherwise). We haven't got anything from our family so we won't really count on that, so might as well be ready. It might have to do something with everyone telling us how premature we are, nevermind that we could get a baby tomorrow. Plus I don't want to have a shower for a particular match in case it falls through, so we're really on our own stuff-wise for the first months (although our parents paid for most of the adoption expenses).

How is everyone going to deal with the shower problem?

Someone mentionned using birth control methods during the wait - I think it's a good idea, even if for most of us it's probably not required anyway. But we've sure stopped trying for our 1% chance to conceive every month since we paid the $5000 of the advertisement fees - I would really not want to get pregnant now.

I had another question too - do any of you have pets, and what are your plans when your baby/child(ren) arrive(s)? I have nighmares of my dogs stealing the baby toys and burrying them in the yard.