TracyLuis

Yea!!! So did we

Received 10 year Green Card on 06/22/2009. Yea!

Approval 05/20/2009 from VSC.

So, am sitting here and my husband walks in saying I received the NOA saying I got approved.

The odd thing is:

- I never received the e-mail from CRIS.

- USCIS website still says "Petition Received" with no touches since February (day after my biometrics).

- The address on the bottom of the NOA is of my Local Office in San Juan and not VSC.

Weird or not, letter says GC comes within the next 60 days, so now I'll just wait for it and hope I'm really approved.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, approval date is 05/29/09.

The same exact thing happened to us. An approval letter in the mail from our local office...no online status update...no emails. We're just waitin' for the card now.

If you don't mind adding TracyLuis approval date of 05/20/2009.....thanks!

Congratulations .

Thank you...I guess we'll see when the actual card arrives

If you don't mind adding TracyLuis approval date of 05/20/2009.....thanks!

Thanks to all for their advice and support

Yesterday I came home from work, my wife had some cramping, so she thought maybe she was hungry that was around 3pm. then when i got home by 5pm the cramp was still there. We called the doctor's office and they asked about spotting, bleeding, none of that symptom, the doctor wasn't there but the ON CALL doctor asked her to take some pepto bismal maby it's an upset gastron... stomach cramp. Since We are always on the cautious side instead of the pharmacy we went straight to ER.

At ER they couldn't find the heart beat, the doctor rush in did a sonogram and we had the sad news, my wife is actually in Labor, the baby is always half way through the canal, those were actually contraction, and there's nothing they can do to stop it.

there was nothing they could do to our little boy Little Joshua it's too premature at 17 weeks. The sac broke 30min after we got to the ER came out, We had an ultra sound schedule for next thursday to find the baby sex.

Really Freaky thing, no advance warning, the Cervix just gave up and dilated, opened up way too early. IT's so shocking I still can't beleive it.

This same thing happened to a friend of mine just a couple of months ago. Devastating. I'm so very sorry to hear this news.

I have posted this before but I am gonna write this again WE ARE MAMMALS...and NO ... absolutely NOOOOO mammal leaves their baby without any defense in it's ´cave´ so alone and all by itself. It might sound corny but all your baby needs is YOU and the ´I don`t want her to sleep in our bed´ is complete rubbish. At least for some months give baby time to adjust. It's been with mommy the past nine month and now she's supposed to suddenly sleep, eat and live on a schedule?? Sorry...I just don't understand why in the world you don't go with your instincts and let that little one sleep close to you.

Vent over.

Drew slept next to me for the first 5 months, but then he decided he wanted his crib. I wasn't ready to let him go and it took me several nights to sleep peacefully without him. But it was on his terms, so I dealt with it. I didn't care what anyone said to me about the (potentially) negative impacts of co-sleeping. I wasn't comfortable leaving my baby in his bed all night, so I didn't. When he was ready, I let him go. Just like Eveline said, TRUST YOUR INSTINCT.

On another note....Drew just turned ONE!!!

I'm so sorry to hear that Tracy. I can only imagine the pain of losing a child. I have a friend here. She had three miscarriages at around 9 weeks. She became pregnant again about three months ago. She told me and we were so happy and she told me that she had miscarried before but that this time it is different. She felt nauseous, gained weight etc. I saw her at a German-People Meeting a couple of weeks back. She was there with her DH and she held her belly a lot and told me all excited that she was almost 10 weeks along and baby was doing great, no cramping, bleeding etc.

Then about a week later she had an US done and her baby's heart had stopped beating at around 8 1/2 weeks. When she told me she was almost 10 weeks along, her baby had been dead for a week. I just bawled when she told me about it. I feel so sorry and what's even worse is that she doesn't have the money for a D&C here in the US so she went back to Germany to have it done (it's covered there). She is now almost 13 weeks and hasn't miscarried naturally. she went to Germany on Thursday to have the D&C done. It is devastating and I feel so bad about complaining that Adam is whining, Allie is crying etc. and she just wants a baby and keeps losing her kids. It's just not fair.

It's a deeply devastating thing to happen to anyone. I can't/won't imagine it. Too painful.

I love reading everyone's stories here, though. It's great to see so many doing so well.

Thanks for the prayers everyone. I thought she had her baby yesterday as I was told she went into labor. The last I heard her water had broken, but the baby has yet to be delivered. And she is 21 weeks, not 20.

I will update when I hear more.

My friend's little boy was born Sunday morning at 21 weeks and 4 days, and did not survive. She is home now and will hopefully find healing somehow. She has a beautiful 4 year old daughter who I'm sure will keep her as distracted as possible.

Thanks for the prayers everyone. I thought she had her baby yesterday as I was told she went into labor. The last I heard her water had broken, but the baby has yet to be delivered. And she is 21 weeks, not 20.

I will update when I hear more.

Please say a little prayer for a friend of mine who had her baby today at just 20 weeks.

Yea!! Good news

I had a "special" pregnancy massage when I was 6 months pregnant and it was VERY disappointing. If/when I get pregnant again, I will find someone better...I hope. I really needed relief!

Good job, Kathryn!!!

One more journey complete...congrats!

I can't believe Kavi is almost 1! Happy First Birthday, little guy!!!

Please add my biometrics appt. date of 01/31/2009. Thanks!

Twila...so glad your babies are doing well, and you, too! They are beautiful!

The NOA is your extension letter...they are one in the same.

The anaesthesia may be rough on little Kavi, but at least you'll have the comfort of knowing that he'll get a more detailed report. I'm so sorry he has to go through that!

On the prenatal vitamin note: I'm still breastfeeding, so the prenatals are good for us both. The ones I get (prescription) smell like vanilla ice cream

Good job!!!

That's a pretty cute joke, Confucian

They'll get what's coming to them, one way or another.