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If the adoptive couple had decided they couldn't follow through with the adoption upon finding some sort of birth defect or medical condition, I probably would have felt a bit hurt (I picked them out at 2 1/2 months, by the end of the pregnancy, it felt more like a surrogacy than anything). But I couldn't have really held it against them, some people just can't deal with things like that.
They had made it a plan when they first applied to adopt that whenever they got matched up with someone, they'd treat that baby the same way they would if it was their own biological child, no matter what. They mentioned that when we were in the delivery room, waiting for me to dialate completely, it made me feel better about having picked them. And he did have a birth defect, albeit a small one.
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