my wife and I have been doing the adoption process for a little over a year...had a couple of agencies working with our "profile"...a couple of bites...but we hadn't reeled anything in
Woke up last Saturday morning with a call from one of the agencies...we got calls regularly, so I let my wife take the call, and I grabbed my coffee and headed into the shop.
As soon as I got to the shop, my wife called...and told me that there was a baby boy born just a few hours earlier.
The birth parents had already chosen my wife & I...however the child wasn't scheduled to be born until February...and they were planning on telling us next week, which would have given us plenty of time to 'digest' the situation, prepare our house....buy baby stuff...etc
We were given a solid 60 minutes to make THE decision, LOL...that way the birth parents could quickly make the emotional disconnection, which they deemed necessary for this adoption.
I sat for a few dozen minutes staring at the floor of my office...wife blowing up my phone...while I tried to wrap my head around what was happening...and the pace at which it was occurring.
wife went shopping for some essentials...we went to dinner Saturday night...and we hopped a plane from Nashville to FL...Sunday morning...walked into the hospital nursery...and within an hour...I was holding my new son.
Atticus Jack Armstrong, "Jack", after my grandfather.
We've been piled up in the Omni Hotel here all week...learning how to be parents.. :hehe: while we wait for the state(s); Florida & TN to get the paperwork processed.
it's pretttty crazy.
He's a wonderful bundle of joy...and I don't think we could have 'spec'd' out a better son...
The birth parents, who have chosen to remain anonymous, without future contact, were in a unique situation. Healthy, married, with 3 other children...but just could not afford the burden of a fourth child. We have full medical records on both parents, and everything looked fantastic. No drugs, no alcohol during the pregnancy...which was always a concern to us with any adoption.
I tried uploading a pic...but I don't know if there is a network restriction with the WiFi...or if I'm dense...
thanks for the support...
Dave
Woke up last Saturday morning with a call from one of the agencies...we got calls regularly, so I let my wife take the call, and I grabbed my coffee and headed into the shop.
As soon as I got to the shop, my wife called...and told me that there was a baby boy born just a few hours earlier.
The birth parents had already chosen my wife & I...however the child wasn't scheduled to be born until February...and they were planning on telling us next week, which would have given us plenty of time to 'digest' the situation, prepare our house....buy baby stuff...etc
We were given a solid 60 minutes to make THE decision, LOL...that way the birth parents could quickly make the emotional disconnection, which they deemed necessary for this adoption.
I sat for a few dozen minutes staring at the floor of my office...wife blowing up my phone...while I tried to wrap my head around what was happening...and the pace at which it was occurring.
wife went shopping for some essentials...we went to dinner Saturday night...and we hopped a plane from Nashville to FL...Sunday morning...walked into the hospital nursery...and within an hour...I was holding my new son.
Atticus Jack Armstrong, "Jack", after my grandfather.
We've been piled up in the Omni Hotel here all week...learning how to be parents.. :hehe: while we wait for the state(s); Florida & TN to get the paperwork processed.
it's pretttty crazy.
He's a wonderful bundle of joy...and I don't think we could have 'spec'd' out a better son...
The birth parents, who have chosen to remain anonymous, without future contact, were in a unique situation. Healthy, married, with 3 other children...but just could not afford the burden of a fourth child. We have full medical records on both parents, and everything looked fantastic. No drugs, no alcohol during the pregnancy...which was always a concern to us with any adoption.
I tried uploading a pic...but I don't know if there is a network restriction with the WiFi...or if I'm dense...
thanks for the support...
Dave