This will be my last post for awhile. Or maybe I will have lots of free time at the hospital and will be blogging every day. I have no idea how this will all go. Or how the internet service will be.
Baby Yeates #4 will be here either October 20 or 21- this Thursday or Friday. Am I nervous- hell yes! Having a baby, having a c-section, is pretty nervewracking anyways. Having a baby in a room where hardly anyone is speaking your language is even worse. If it was Spanish I could make out every other word, but my Russian after two months is not that great. I do know the word for good, though, and I hope I hear that alot. The reason the surgery is a few days earlier than I expected is that the head of the hospital (the head OBGYN of all of Moscow and probably Russia) is going to be scrubbing in that day also. And Thursday or Friday is when he is free. Please keep Dr.K, Dr. Sergei, me, the baby, and the possible many spectators in your prayers for that day. It seems like it will be standing room only outside the OR (you can watch surgeries from a glass window) and I hope Jesy will be able to see his child being born with all of the other people watching. I am a teaching case, so there will be lots of doctors and nurses around.
The kids are excited to meet their new brother, but a bit apprehensive about me being gone for so long. Colin is actually taking it very hard that I will be gone for 5-6 days. The girls will be upset, but they also love Olesea (the nanny) so I know they will be having fun with her. And next Saturday night is part one of trick or treating in our neighborhood, so they will have lots of fun getting candy and dressing up. Cannot believe I am missing it.
I posted this on facebook, but I know some of you are not on it. The question I most often get- will this baby be a US or Russian citizen. He will not be a Russian. As the saying goes "Russia for Russians". Both of your parents have to be Russian citizens in order for you to be a Russian citizen. I told Jesy I feel like we are the good fairies from Sleeping Beauty (my childhood favorite). We bestow the gift of American citizenship on our child when he is born. I was told this by the US Embassy and I thought it was rather cute. He will only get a slip of paper from the hospital saying when he was born. We then have to take this paper to a Russian registrar office and get a Russian birth certificate. Then we bring this birth certificate to the US Embassy and they give an American birth certificate that is issued by the State Department, not a US state. With this birth certificate and some other forms we can apply for a passport. And then we can TRAVEL! One of the main reasons we moved to Russia. We are hoping for Prague in late winter and we have a house rented for Italy in April. On that note, let's hope the Italians can get it together and stop rioting in the street so I can get to Rome. I am probably jinxing myself, but Italy is my dream.
Next time I write I should be a mother of 4!
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