Our application to adopt goes to the aptly named Adoption Application Committee on Tuesday. We wont find out the result for a week or two afterwards as they write a letter which explains the outcome and what our options are.
We expect that we will not be approved as prospective adoptive applicants, due to the lack of a recommendation by our assessor. We have written an addendum to the report to give our perspective on how we would raise a child and our financial status, but we don't how much, if any, impact that will have on the panel. Whatever happens, we know that it's not up to us anymore. Now we hope and pray that they will see us for the parents we could be.
In other fertility related news, we have our appointment date for the public fertility clinic - 11th November. There are a bunch of tests we need to do before the appointment, so I will get onto those shortly. I will be having a pelvic ultrasound, and I'm really interested in seeing how my weight loss has affected my PCOS. So far my ovulation appears to have been restored, with very regular cycles of around 28/29 days, so I wonder if I still have the classic 'string of pearls' follicles on my ovaries.
It is also nearly 12 months since I had my gastric sleeve surgery and I have lost 51kg to date (or 112 pounds for my US friends). I'm feeling great, and have posted some photos over at
Lose and Hope if you want to pop over and look.
In other news, we spent the July school holiday's in Melbourne and Sydney, which was really nice despite having Bronchitis the whole time. I got to attend State of Origin game 3 which New South Wales unfortunately lost, plus a Friday night football game at the MCG! We went and saw King Kong at the theatre which was incredible, and I got to spend lots of quality time with my youngest brother Daniel who lives in Sydney. Time for some photos!
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| Snow cuddles! |
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| At Mt Buller seeing snow for the first time |
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| A little slice of Mexico in Melbourne |
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| Waiting to go in at the theatre |
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| At the MCG |
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| Our hotel room in Sydney - I highly recommend the Swissotel! |
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| The Rocks - a lovely spot for a walk on Sunday afternoon |
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| Walking back from Chinatown |
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| We had perfect weather nearly the whole time we were there |
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| Darling Harbour |
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| Sydney Aquarium |
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| Swimming with the fishes... |
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| My brother and I |
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| Off to State of Origin |
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| Daniel and I chilling out |
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| Lunch in Cronulla |
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| Mmmm icecream! |
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| Walking by Cronulla Beach |
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ReplyDeleteI was diagnosed with PCOS at age 17, due to (with other things) classic PCOS ovaries. I was (slightly) underweight at the time (and I've never been overweight in my life). At age 20, with an additional maybe 3kg, I fell pregnant accidentally despite being on the pill.
ReplyDeleteJust saying... even if the ultrasound hasn't visibly changed, it doesn't necessarily mean that things haven't changed, or that you aren't ovulating :) Much stranger things have happened.
Great photos !
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