I can’t believe I am starting a blog about our adoption journey… The last few years have been very difficult for us. Dealing with infertility and multiple pregnancy losses has been the toughest thing that we have ever gone through. The highs of seeing those two lines appear on a Pregnancy Test followed by the lows of dealing with miscarriages has been quite a roller coaster of emotions. Along the way, I was often asked if we had considered adoption… I wasn’t even sure how to respond to that question… Even after multiple miscarriages, I wasn’t ready to let go of the idea of giving birth to my biological child.
I am not sure what made us finally realize that our ultimate goal was to have a family… and even though we wouldn’t share the same biology, we would love any child that we were blessed with unconditionally. We reached out to two very special friends of ours to see if they would be willing to share their adoption story with us. We met with them and their beautiful little girl a few days later. They told us the good, bad, and ugly of their entire journey. I think I cried a majority of the time we were there. They have such an incredible journey that had its ups and downs but sure ended with a beautiful little girl being placed into their lives.
We attended an information session a few weeks later with Independent Adoption Center in Raleigh (the same agency that our friends used). We immediately noticed photos of babies and their adopted families posted all over the room. During the first break I got up and was fumbling in my bag trying to find my phone. I looked up and directly in front of me on a huge bulletin board with hundreds of photos was the birth announcement from our friends with their little girl on it… I couldn’t have asked for more of a confirmation that we were doing exactly what we were always suppose to do.
Our Adoption Story 