Monday, June 20, 2011

counseling

so one of the requirements that we have to meet before starting to try to conceive is a counseling session. in some ways it's kind of ridiculous that this is a requirement, in other ways this should be a requirement for anyone who wants to have children, but we all know that would never happen. we went to see the psychologist today, and what an interesting experience it was. she informed us when we got there that she would make an assessment of us to send back to the doctor on whether or not she felt that we were ready to have children. the psychologist's office was located on the ground level of an apartment building, which was odd to begin with... and then when we walked into her "office" it pretty much looked like the inside of an apartment. at this point i wouldn't be surprised if she actually lived there lol. so today was a very very hot day, and while there was an air conditioning unit in the room that we had our session in, she for whatever reason refused to turn it on. the whole thing was bizarre.. and very warm. she asked us a lot of questions about our relationship and our family history as well as how we were going to handle various situations that could arise. there were several times where we felt like she was trying to stump us with questions- which we keep joking about like, "what would you do if you knew you were pregnant with triplets and one had 4 arms and the other had 2 heads and they were both cannibalizing the third triplet... what would you do?" she didn't actually ask that, but that's how ridiculous some of the "trick questions" seemed to be lol. anyway, great news... we passed the test with flying colors!!!

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  1. i couldn't agree more!! :) the counselor lady seemed nice enough, but we had great answers to all the "normal" questions, so maybe she felt like she had to find something that we hadn't thought about or something we didn't have an answer to. she also said "mmm-hmm" a lot! oh well, at least we passed!

    also, her "office" didn't just "look like an apartment"... it WAS an apartment! i felt like a was trespassing!! =P

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