No News

No news and it's the weekend in China right now. That means we have to wait the whole weekend and maybe even all of next week before we hear anything This is killer!
If the CCAA in China doesn't mail out our referral by Monday, we won't hear anything until LATE next week. My optimism of hoping we'd hear by June 4th got me again.

We decided to stay home this weekend, now I'm regretting that choice. I think we're going to go crazy!

I came across Ancient Chinese myths and customs of pregnancy and newborns in China. I find them fascinating and thought I'd share little tidbits of them each day. Here's one for today. It makes me really wonder about the birth mother of our daughter and all she went through to carry and deliver our baby only to have to give her up.

"According to old Chinese tradition, what affects a woman's mind will also affect her heart and connect with the baby in utero. A pregnant woman reads good poetry -- she doesn't gossip, laugh loudly, sit on a crooked mat, look at clashing colors, or lose her temper. Many Chinese women will read beautiful stories before drifting off to sleep.

There are many ancient taboos regarding the food Chinese women eat during pregnancy. It's believed that if a pregnant woman eats food that's not properly cut or mashed, her child will have a careless disposition. Or if she eats light colored foods, the baby will be fair-skinned. Many also believe that no construction work should be done in the house of a pregnant women. Hammering and sawing could lead to an abortion or fetal deformities. And, pregnant women should never attend funerals. To scare away evil sprits, Chinese women may sleep with knives under their bed. Often a piece of paper cut to resemble a pair of scissors is hung from bed curtains and tiger skins are hung over the bed. "