Preemie Babies, NICU Possibilities and Are We Being Graded?

Apparently on our desired child form, we forgot to fill out what level of #preemie we were ok with.  Yes, you can choose how many months/weeks #premature is ok for your future #child to be born.  I always feel like there is a right and wrong answer. Like we are being graded during the whole #adoption process.  Like if we are too conservative the agency will take our perfectly written little form and shove it to the bottom of the pile under those who said , "Any baby out there!!!" while singing and twirling in the forest with bluebirds on their shoulders.  I panicked and asked a few of my #mother friends who's answers ranged from 30 weeks to 37 weeks.  We decided to err on the side of caution to start with, as you can control Z that shiz down the road and rewrite answers at any time.  We put 37 weeks. I can see the bottom of the pile from here. Though I feel that may be a lil toooo cautious, we will most likely be in another state.  It will be bonkers enough living in a hotel like #nomads, I can't imagine dealing with #NICU.  I hate #hospitals, it always reminds me of when I was taking care of my dad after his brain surgeries and cancer treatments.  Those God awful beeps everywhere, the fluorescent lighting that makes everyone look half dead even if they aren't, and man was I sick of hockey puck burgers and hardened vending machine #donuts.  YES, I said I was sick of donuts, that's how bad it got!  And the smell!  I walk into a hospital and the scent alone sends blood rapidly into veins in my forehead I did not even know where there. All in favor of 37 weeks?! AYE AYE CAPTAIN!


Good thing I will not be the one #givingbirth.  Though I am sure the pain is so bad you could care less what you smell and Lord knows with my big mouth nobody would hear any of those beeps that would sound like pin drops compared to my shrieks.  Maybe it is best for everyone that we are adopting . We are not saying we will never conceive,  and in the small chance that I will be in a hospital delivering a child one day, I will warn everyone to locate their emergency natural disaster plans (create one now if you don't have one, you will need it!) and flee.

Waiting for our grade and precious baby,
Bumpless Baby Mama