DH and I were married fairly young...we were both 20. Being so young DH was in no rush to have kids, but I had a different plan. After hearing the story of how my sister-in-law became pregnant with her oldest by going off of the pill without her husband knowing, I decided to do the same thing and leave it up to God! Two and a half years later and not one positive pregnancy test I knew something was wrong. I'll never forget the day DH and I went to the doctors and were asked how long we'd been trying. His answer was about a year...mine was 2 1/2 years. You can imagine the shock on his face! Long story short, we learned that our only options for becoming parents were adoption or sperm donor. The sperm donor thing was never going to happen so adoption was it for us.
We decided late March of '07 to adopt and met with an adoption attorney mid April '07 to learn what our options were and what first steps we needed to take.
The next week at work a coworker who knew DH and I were pursuing adoption told me of a friend of hers who had decided to place her unborn baby and was looking for a family. With permission from her friend, my coworker gave me her phone number. After building up ALL of the courage I had, two days later I called said friend and left a voicemail introducing myself. A few days later I hadn't heard anything so I tried to put the situation in the back of my mind.
Friday May 4 DH and I were flying up to PA to visit my family. We had just pulled into the airport parking lot when my phone rang. I almost didn't answer because I didn't recognize the number. Anyway, I answered the phone and it was K's (DD's birth mom) dad returning my call. We talked for about 15 minutes. He basically wanted to know if we were still interested in meeting them and went over K's pregnancy thus far, their medical history...he actually gave me a lot of info during that first phone call. I spent our entire wait at our gate on the phone with my family shrieking!! DH and I returned home the following Tuesday and Wednesday evening we met K and her dad at Arby's for our face to face. We left that meeting agreeing that we were all in it for the long run. We spent the next few months getting to know eachother during doctor's visits, window shopping trips, cookouts, etc.
Then on Monday Oct 1, 2007 we got the call at 6:32 am! The greatest phone call of my life! K had been having contractions since the evening before and they were just waiting for the dr to return their call to see if they should go to the hospital. DH and I got up and started getting around. Twenty minutes later we received another phone call saying they weren't waiting any longer, this had to be it! DH and I arrived at the hospital just in time to hear that her labor was progessing enough that they would be admitting her! That was shortly after 9 am. About thirteen and a half hours later (3 hours of pushing) DD was born! I was able to to be at K's side during labor and DH cut DD's umbilicol cord! It was the greatest day of my life!
Two days later we were able to bring DD home and the rest is history!
Hopefully that wasn't too long. I have a problem telling our story without going into way too much detail!
