[BlessedbySnuggs]

Wow, such great, inspirational stories!!!

Here's mine....

DH and I got married in '05 and started TTC right away. I kind of remember having a feeling that having a family might be hard for us. Not sure why I felt this way, just did. After a year and some change of trying, we went to a specialist who told us that we "were perfectly healthly" Hmmm....well, obviously we weren't, we weren't getting pregnant, so we were diagnosed with "unexplained infertility" just great, right??!!! We really couldn't do much, because technically there wasn't a problem. Talk about being frustrated! Well long behold, I got pregnant after trying for about 18 months. Not quite after two weeks of finding out that I was pregnant, I miscarried. Oh, what a horrible time in my life. I was so angry; actually anger doesn't begin to describe what I felt. We tried for a few more months, and that was it for the both of us. We couldn't take it anymore. We wanted children...didn't matter if I gave birth to them or if we adopted them!

In January of '07 we signed with an agency for an international adoption in Guatemala; soon after, things started getting really crazy down there (so many things changing with their adoption procedures), so after much discussion, we decided to change to domestic adoption. We signed with a facilitator in April; we received a few calls the first few months that just didn't feel right to us, so we waited patiently, and August 11th we got a call with a PBM that wanted to speak with us. We had a really good talk, but the PBM wanted to talk to a few other couples and then decide. We were the first couple she spoke with after receiving the profiles from our facilitator. About a week passed, and we hadn't heard anything. We really assumed that she spoke with another couple and had decided to "match" with them. A few days later we got the call that changed our lives forever. Our facilitator called and said that "D" wanted us to be the parents!!!! Come to find out that she never even spoke with the other PAP's. She wanted to think about us for a week and decide; 6 weeks later our beautiful DD was born. We flew out to be there for the birth but just missed it. We have been with our DD since she was 4 hours old. She is the love of our lives! Everyday we truly feel so, so blessed!!!!!!