[Dublin]

I believe in "signs" that something may happen. Do you?

When my husband and I first learned about a baby that was being put up for adoption, we also learned that the birthmoms name is Christine. My name is Kristine. She interviewed us on
9-11-03. It rained while we were in the interview. When we got home from the interview, the temperature on both the indoor and outdoor thermostats read 71.2. My birthday is 7/12. Two days later, I looked at the clock, it read 7:12. That day the Social Worker called us to tell us we had been choosen. It was raining. A week later, we met with the birthdad, it rained. The clock read 7:12. Throughout the whole adoption process, I would see 7:12. During our tour of the birth place at the hospital, the clock read 7:12.

I don't know if these signs truly meant anything... But somehow they comforted me. Whenever I was worried about the adoption, I would see another sign... It was as if someone was saying, "Look, I have given you all of these signs, now just stop worrying."

Did you have any signs that you were meant to adopt your child???

[katieb31323]

Hi

I believe that my children were destined to be my children but I don't know if I recieved any real specific signs. Yours were really cool Dublin! The first social worker we worked with told us that we would "know" in our hearts when the situation was right and to really listen to our hearts. And two adoptions later, I know that is true. Our daughters adoption was especially coincidental that proved and confirmed in my heart she was destined to be in our family. Our album had been "borrowed" by another agency to show to prespective birthparents. We were not chosen and the album was suppose to be returned to our agency. We were on vacation at the time. When we returned, I called our social worker to check on our album which had not been returned. I called the borowing agency, the secretary said she would have the social worker who borrowed it call me. After some errands I returned to a message from a social worker from that agency and assumed it was about the album. Actually it was a different SW who had taken the album which had been returned to their shelves accidently...we had been choosen to parent our daughter. We met her birthmother that afternoon and brought our daughter home the next day. So, not really "signs" but so many coincidences that it just proved to us it was meant to be!
Katie

[Dublin]

It is so strange how things happen. I would definately take this a s a sign that she was to be your daughter, it was destiny.

We found out about our daughter in a strange way too. My husband works with this guy who takes his daughter to this babysitter who asked him one day if he knew of anyone who was looking to adopt. It turned out that the older sister (Christine) of one of the other kids she babysat for was pregnant. He immediately thought of us and the rest is history...

[katieb31323]

Wow! I think it really is destiny and making some kind of connection. It definately an amazing thing in so many ways. My son does not in any way look like my husband...but I swear they share the same brain! They are both creative/scientific brains. Very unique...I am so glad they have each other as sometimes I don't know where either one of them is coming from!

katie

[Dublin]

How funny!

It was so funny the other weekend... we were at a baby expo and everyone kept on saying "oh, she looks just like her mom." or "Oh she has your eyes."

[wishingforbaby]

I am matched with a young bmom due in August. There have been all sorts of weird signs. Everyone keeps telling us we look enough alike to be sisters. The bdad looks just like my brother did at 16. The bdad has blue eyes and blond hair like me, and the bmom has brown hair and green eyes like DH. The bmom wants to go to an art college, and my DH works at an ad agency and at an art college. The bmom's mother worked in daycare all her life, and so do I. We have the same allergies. DH and the bdad had the same ear surgery and had tubes in there ears alot as children. The baby will be born in Reno, which is where DH and I ran to when we found out I was m/c'ing our baby at 10 weeks. We learned later it was a girl, and bmom is having a girl.

It all makes me feel this child is meant to be our forever child.

I love signs!!

Brenda

[Dublin]

CONGRATULATIONS! It does sound like it was meant to be.

[love to be mom]

I thought that I saw signs, because I do believe in them. The bmom told me her 2 month old daughters name, her middle name is my sisters last name. She was born in the first week of march and my sisters bday is in march and My grandma (the best ever) died on March 4th. My sister is very ill and going for surgery first week in June, so I thought that it was all going to be alright, that it was meant to be, because we were told that if everything went well that our baby would be home 2 days before my sisters surgery. My sister thought it was great because she thought that she would get to spend at least 1 day with her new niece before risky surgery. She had her attorney appt. today but she didn't show. I guess I was looking at signs that really weren't there. keep the faith and God Bless

[Big Dreamer]

What a cool question...thanks for staring this thread...

Our bmom found us within 18 hours of posting our Birthmother letter on the Internet.

We were so comfortable with each other she chose us that night.

Here are a few signs that we both felt awesome about.

She had narrowed her search to five couples each couple had a check mark by thier name except for us she had put a star with out ever talking to us.

She wanted to know what I would name our baby...I said "if it's a girl...I want to name her Star". She told me she almost passed out when I said that. She didn't tell me about the star until we had known each other for a few months. I even called the baby Star in utero and sure enough she was a girl.

I love blue jeans and sweatshirts and so does she.

I love shopping at Walmart, she worked at Walmart.

She had a fish tank, we had a 180 gallon fish tank.

My husband is a former college proffessor she dreamed of going to college.

She looked like my husband and could pass for his sister, people often thought they were brother and sister.

I am Hispanic, babies bfather is Hispanic.

Here's the BIG SIGN...

My Birthday is April 12, - her moms birthday is April 12th

We were on the adoption roller coaster for 8 years our daughter was born on April 8th.

Writing all this down fills my heart with joy. I will add all this to Stars baby book.


Maria

[riley6]

Our sign was that our children were placed with us, went through tpr, and the sw asked us if we wanted to adopt them. Believe me, we contiplated adopting them, especially the two younger ones with RAD, but in the end we decided that if God brought them to us, He would bring us through anything to do with them.

My asons' middle names are the same as my bsons' middle names. My kids' bmoms names are the same as my two best friends. One of their grandma's first names is the same as my mom's (so they have two gma's with the same first names). Their grandpa's name is the same as my grandpa's name. My older kids' mom's bday is in the same month/week as my bday and their father's was in the same month/week as my dh's bday. My younger kids' grandma's b/day is in the same month/week as my bday. All the mothers in our family are the same "sign". I just found out last week that all the father's in our family are also the same sign (really creapy since my dh is nothing like either of the bf's).

[AMom2Two]

Signs....I don't know about signs but I can tell you that I received my daughter in less time then I would have during a regular pregnancy. It only took us 4.5 months from start of the homestudy until placement. That convinced me that I was on the right path. 7 years of IF and only 4.5 months to adopt a newborn. I felt God was telling me something. In addition, our daughter was born with a small birth mark on her right shoulder, the EXACT same mark I have and my mom has. Talk about weird! Her bmom said her family have birth marks that run on their upper thigh, like her and her son. Our daughter's upper thigh, completely smooth with no mark.

[Prissy]

Yes I absolutely believe in signs. As I was getting my homestudy done, and prior to choosing an adoption agency, I use to browse web sites of adoption agencies. I finally signed up with one of these agencies and within three days I saw a situation posted on their web site, every time I brought this web site up on my computer it was there. I received a call within two weeks that a birthmother had choosen my profile and wanted to meet me at the time of placement, I was thrilled. As I was talking with the social worker I realized that the situation sounded very familar, so I asked and low and behold it was the situation posted on the web site that had been haunting me for weeks. At that time I just knew it was meant to be. When my son was born and I went out to get him and meet his birthmother I was shocked and thrilled, she looked just like my sister and my son just like my nephew when he was born. Again that just confirmed my belief that this was my little miracle sent from above.

[Sylvester]

Hi, I totally believe in signs... We were matched with our first daughter's bmom in March of 1998. Six weeks later our baby girl was born. Her bmom was 14 years old. Her bmom was born in Texas, where I am from and then moved to Colorado as a child. Two and a half years later we started the process again. We were matched with a bmom in March of 2001. She was born in Colorado then moved to Texas as a child. She was 14 when she had her first child. Our first daughter's due date was April 29th. Second child was due on May 5th. M*** was born May 6th and C*** was born April 16th. Do any of these things mean anything, to me they did. I just felt that it was a sign and it got us through our second placement, it was a tough one!!!

[toyjsu]

We definately had signs. Our sw said when we first started the process she saw a flyer at a matching retreat on our daughter. She figured by the time we finshed our paperwork the little girl would already be adopted. The week before our last interview the sw went to another matching retreat and saw another flyer on the same little girl. Now we requested 0-3. We were told that it would be difficult and a long wait to find a child like that in foster care. We sent our homestudy in on this little girl. While we waited we talked about changing her first name. I liked the name Jasmine. My husband said I like it but lets find a name with meaning., go online and find a name that means "Gift from God". I searched 3 websites for baby names. On the third website I saw the name Jasmine and beside it was "Gift from God". My husband and I just stared at the computer. I told him right then that she was going to be ours. 3 days later the social worker called to tell me that we were chosen. I have since learned that another family was chosen several months back (before we finished our homestudy) and they never responded. Jasmine has a feeding tube and had not eaten any solids but baby food. The day we met her we gave her a french fry and she ate half. The foster mother cried when I told her. She said we were able to do something she hasn't been able to do. She said this is ment to be. By the way we met her the day before Mother's Day. She was placed with us on Mother's Day. In the 2 weeks she has been home. She has only been tube fed a couple of times. She loves to eat and she is learning to walk. She calls me Mommy. Her social worker said In all her years as an adoption sw she has never had a placement go this well.

[Big Dreamer]

Toyjsu,

What a wonderful story. Many blessings to you and your family. May your lives be filled with peace, good health, happiness and tons of love.

Hugs to all of you,
Maria