Three years ago on Nov 4, 2011, we were waiting at the hospital for the birth of our daughter. I was not the one in the delivery room though. My husband, Adam, and I were anxiously waiting for our birthmother to deliver our daughter, Addison. Let me rewind and start from the beginning.
Adam and I were married July 21, 2001 and started our lives together. We decided to wait five years before trying to start a family. They were wonderful five years and then the heartaches started. In 2007, we started infertility testing because things weren't happening naturally. Four surgeries later and a diagnosis of endometriosis, we still weren't pregnant. But God opened a window and we chose to consider adoption. Through a friend of my moms, we found Adoption By Choice in 2009. It's a nonprofit, Christian adoption agency that works with the Women's Help Center in Erie, PA. We completed our paperwork and homestudy in Feb 2011. And then we received "the call" on Friday, July 15, 2011 and met our birthmother and birthfather on our ten year wedding anniversary (7/21/11). It was God's perfect will for us that we be Addison's parents. We had the opportunity to meet with our birth mother five times prior to Addison's delivery. What a blessing to get to know our birth mother and learn about her likes, memories, and what she wished for this baby. We can honestly say that we fell in love with our birth mother because of her sacrifice and unconditional love for her baby.
So fast forward to the hospital...what an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. And then we got to meet and hold our daughter. The angels in heaven rejoiced that day because we were a family.
Since Addison's birth, we have kept in touch with our birthmother and have met with her on three occasions so she can see Addison. It's a family reunion of sorts and such a blessing for us to have the pictures and memories. Addison was born out of love and to this day, is cherished my two mothers and a father.
Adam and I were married July 21, 2001 and started our lives together. We decided to wait five years before trying to start a family. They were wonderful five years and then the heartaches started. In 2007, we started infertility testing because things weren't happening naturally. Four surgeries later and a diagnosis of endometriosis, we still weren't pregnant. But God opened a window and we chose to consider adoption. Through a friend of my moms, we found Adoption By Choice in 2009. It's a nonprofit, Christian adoption agency that works with the Women's Help Center in Erie, PA. We completed our paperwork and homestudy in Feb 2011. And then we received "the call" on Friday, July 15, 2011 and met our birthmother and birthfather on our ten year wedding anniversary (7/21/11). It was God's perfect will for us that we be Addison's parents. We had the opportunity to meet with our birth mother five times prior to Addison's delivery. What a blessing to get to know our birth mother and learn about her likes, memories, and what she wished for this baby. We can honestly say that we fell in love with our birth mother because of her sacrifice and unconditional love for her baby.
So fast forward to the hospital...what an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. And then we got to meet and hold our daughter. The angels in heaven rejoiced that day because we were a family.
Since Addison's birth, we have kept in touch with our birthmother and have met with her on three occasions so she can see Addison. It's a family reunion of sorts and such a blessing for us to have the pictures and memories. Addison was born out of love and to this day, is cherished my two mothers and a father.
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