Dear Baby

Dear Baby,

While I don't know if you are even conceived yet, I have such great love for you. I know that you will find our family through a wonderful birth mother. We just have to be patient and wait for you to get here.

While we wait, we are doing things to help get ready for you. We have a room that has been dubbed "the baby room". While it's not much right now, it's where you will sleep when you arrive. We will put up a crib and paint the walls a pretty color. It'll be a nice place for you to be.

Your big brothers are excited for you to arrive and both have asked me if you would be here "tomorrow". Of course, I told them that you wouldn't be and that I didn't know when you would be here. It's hard for little boys to have to wait and wait and wait.

Your dad and I are saving money so that we won't have to borrow much or any by the time you find us in order to adopt you. We love you very much and no matter the cost want you to be in our family forever.

I am attached to a breast pump every 2-3 hours for 15-20 minutes to re-lactate so that by the time you get here, I'll be able to feed you the way nature intended. It's only been a couple weeks, but there's drops of milk already. I'm just hoping there will be more than just drops for you when you are here.

We are thinking of names for you. We don't know if you'll be a boy or a girl or if we'll get twins, but we like to think of possible names for you. I'm kinda liking Adelaide if you are a girl. Not sure on a boy's name just yet, but don't you worry, if you are a boy, we'll come up with the perfect name for you.

We have a nice stash of cloth diapers waiting for your little tushie. Cloth is much more comfortable than disposable/paper diapers and I know you'll appreciate them. If you are a boy we already have cloths for you. If you are a girl, we have a few, but a friend has offered to let us use clothes that her baby wore, so we are set either way.

Just remember that we love you and are waiting for you to join our family.

Lots of love,

Your mom and dad