2008-04-24

Update...

41 weeks and one day, officially very overdue and annoyed! Can't believe that this is going on so long. I guess I'm a chip off my sister's block, she was 10 days overdue with her first and 14 days with her second (and they induced her, who knows how long that would have gone on...).
So here I sit, waiting patiently for this child to come(well, maybe not so patiently) and I just hope that it shows before we have to fly out to New Jersey on the 13th of May, three weeks less two days (not that I'm counting...). We did find out that flying out with the baby(baby and no passport) should be no problem. We called the airlines and we need no ID for an infant (which I still find rather weird) but I'll have the notice of birth from the hospital(and hopefully the birth certificate too, depending on how long it takes to get here) and our hospital ID bracelets, so we should be good. We're flying out of Bellingham so all we need to get across the border (by car) with the baby is the pieces of ID I mentioned earlier. Normally, had we been flying out of Canada and into the States, the baby would have needed a passport, but the fact that we are flying within that US means no ID required. All good news for us. I'm going to call the border and the airlines again to confirm, just to make myself, and Zach, feel better. You can never really trust one person's opinion on the matter. Grenada has made us so skeptical with these things. If someone didn't know the answer to a question you asked, they'd make something up. So then you'd go to the next person (because after a while you tend to catch on) and the answer would be completely different. You had to ask a bunch of people, work out the averages and that was what you'd go with! Good times.
I'll try and keep this up to date in the next bit, hopefully we'll have a child soon to make us a little busier (because we didn't have enough on our plates...). Zach is also sick right now, so hopefully he'll get better before this baby is born, we'll see...

1 comment:

Jason and Kristin said...

Hey - just a thing to look into...I wasn't able to take Landon into the USA until he had a birth certificate. We go down quite a bit so I had checked into it. And on the Canadian border services website, it says that anyone under 18 needs proof of citizenship, so a birth certificate. I had all of my forms filled out, other than the name and sex of the baby, before we got to the hospital and then filled that part out, and had my parents send it in for me and it only took a week for the birth certificate to come - so I'd just have someone mail it immediately and you should get it before you go, as long as your baby comes soon!!! Hope that helps!