adoption is the craziest thing

'Sup, y'all

The past 3 months of my life have been insane, particularly March; our birth mother went into labor early (31 weeks) and delivered freakishly healthy superbabies on March 3. Both boys are out of incubators and mostly feeding from bottles at gestational age 34 weeks. The birth mother's parental surrender became irrevocable as of this afternoon, which is why I'm only posting about it now.

I have a PLETHORA of stories to tell about the adoption process that ain't happening in a googlable forum but the main takeaway is that I feel like someone waved a magic wand at me and PRESTO I have children

btw super mazel tovs, cutest pics ever on the fbz.

Congratulations!!!!!!! That is so awesome.

How are the babies? Still in the NICU? What do they weigh? Pictures?

I'm unreasonably excited for you!

thrilled for you both. i hear those adopted kids are pretty awesome, too.

Thank you thank you!

The kids are in Level II care in the hospital. It's basically the super chill section of the NICU; they still have feeding tubes but have been getting most of their meals by bottle for almost a week. They've been weaned out of incubators and are rapidly approaching take-home weight (one is 5 lbs, the other is 4 lbs 14 oz). At this point, we just need them to exclusively bottle feed, continue to gain weight and not have any crashes on their vitals that require intervention (another scary superbaby fact: they have not needed intervention since their birth).

That was Ivy's situation, too - they're called "feeders and growers." It's maddening to have to wait! I'm so happy they are doing so well. I can't wait until you can take them home.

Don't forget the pictures for us chumps who aren't on Facebook.

I'll need to get to a computer to finagle pictures; I have intentionally only made my phone capable of posting pics to Facebook and Twitter

!!!!!!

Babies for everyone!

So cool -- congratulations!

Oh wait, ignore that screen name.

sure sure i have one baby and you have to have two, will this competative madness never end

probably not until i learn how to spell competitive i suppose

holy whoa, congrats Dan and fam!!

HOLY SHIT DJP CONGRATS!!!!

Not one but TWO well-formed babbies! Awesome news, so happy for you and J. Let the parenting madness begin!

double the perry double the fun :D :D

aw, congrats, Dan! so happy for you!

it's so wonderful, congratulations to you all.

congratulations! yaay baby happiness x2! :D

parental surrender

but don't give yourself awaaaay

Congratulations!

^_^ ^_^

I hope you had the biggest beer ever at 4 today. :D I told you this many times the other night but this is just the best thing and couldn't have happened to better people. You are going to be awesome parents. Now those babies gotta keep growing so I can meet and cuddle them!

Good job.

Had no idea abt this DJP. Congrats!

congratulations!, djp. so lovely to hear.

fyi, I'm putting the pictures I shared on Facebook in here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/44031217@N00/sets/72157642884299033/

Please let me know if you can't see them.

Good work, DJP. Kids will be great if you keep them away from Dirty Dancing.

Those are some handsome babbies! I love the look on the little guy's face (the one wearing the crimson shirt) in the pic with you and the boys--he's looking like you like "oh damn, that's Dad."

jealous of the cuteness tbh

Fantastic news!

Oh my gosh those pictures are so wonderful. You and J are glowing and the babies are AMAZING.

awesome news, awesome photos!

Oh wow, what wonderful news!

Of course Pope Dan would end up with SUPER BABIES!!

congrats dan!

http://i.imgur.com/ENa2a72.jpg

DJP! Congratulations! Well done!

shamrock butts

this is so awesome. congratulations!!

very cool, congratulations!

Thank you, everyone!

Yesterday we had the boys transferred to a hospital in Boston so that we could sleep at home. The Portland hospital was thinking that D would be released first with J leaving a few days behind; the Boston hospital looked at them and basically was like "we expect these guys to be out of here Monday" (!!!!!!!!) The Boston hospital is also feeding them twice as much as Portland was and neither boy is having problems eating.

congrats!

Whoa, nice work, DJP!

Wonderful news!

so fun to see these guys irl today!

They're pretty great, right?

I imagine you are busy with a few (well, two) other things right now, but I hope at some point you're open to sharing more about your adoption experience. I have some social work colleagues who work in adoption, and it does, in face, sound like the craziest thing. Interested in your perspective.

in fact, not in face

They're pretty great, right?

― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Saturday, April 5, 2014 8:15 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally! i never realized that a fun thing about being a twin would be co-napping.

I'm in the process of doing this right now, actually; I don't know anything about your situation or experience prior to this point but if it's anything like mine it was a hell of a trip, so congratulations.

in fact, not in face

In face as well

I will be much more open to talking in September when everything is finalized. I will say that the boys rule and I love them and leave it at that.

I am super happy for those of you tht have met the twins, but as a dude that has not yet met them I hate you all.

Jealousy it's what's for breakfast

I have only just found this joyous thread! Congratulations D and J!

Has anyone fostered children? Or been fostered? Or would this be better in a new thread?