In April of 2012, my husband and I started our journey to adopt through foster care. We had our home study, filled out lots of paperwork, went to classes, and were officially licensed foster parents on December 5, 2012. Ten days later on December 15, we received a phone call while out doing errands about a precious baby boy who needed a safe place to land. We immediately said yes and headed home to get all the baby stuff we had out of the garage. Being first time parents, we pretty much had no idea what we were doing with this tiny human but we loved him nonetheless. We fostered Jacob for two years and with the incredible support of his birth family we were able to adopt him on December 18, 2014. He’s forever my Christmas baby; the best gift ever!
Little did we know on that adoption day, we were also pregnant. My pregnancy was a wonderful experience! However, giving birth is where I ran into a lot of issues. My body did not respond well to the epidural and I was given a shot in the thigh (ouch!) to increase my heart rate. We were blessed with Griffin on July 29, 2015 in the early morning. Soon after, I started passing large blood clots. This wasn't caught at first and I ended up having an emergency D&C to stop the bleeding. I'm so thankful for the lactation consultant who alerted the nurse who in turn alerted my OB! They quite literally saved my life.
We were getting into the rhythm of having two little boys when Jacob’s brave birth mother reached out to us. She found out she was pregnant and wanted to make an adoption plan that included us. We said yes without hesitation and on June 21, 2017 we were blessed with our daughter, Elodie. We finalized her adoption on December 7, 2017.
Little did we know on that adoption day, we were also pregnant. My pregnancy was a wonderful experience! However, giving birth is where I ran into a lot of issues. My body did not respond well to the epidural and I was given a shot in the thigh (ouch!) to increase my heart rate. We were blessed with Griffin on July 29, 2015 in the early morning. Soon after, I started passing large blood clots. This wasn't caught at first and I ended up having an emergency D&C to stop the bleeding. I'm so thankful for the lactation consultant who alerted the nurse who in turn alerted my OB! They quite literally saved my life.
We were getting into the rhythm of having two little boys when Jacob’s brave birth mother reached out to us. She found out she was pregnant and wanted to make an adoption plan that included us. We said yes without hesitation and on June 21, 2017 we were blessed with our daughter, Elodie. We finalized her adoption on December 7, 2017.
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