[DancinBear63]

One year ago today, I was starting my afternoon clinic, when I received a call from my son's birthmom's sw. She said, "He's here!"

I ran around the office telling everyone, "He's here, he's here!" I tried to call DH, but I couldn't get through to his cell phone or classroom line. (I still tease him that the school secretary knew before he did.) My departure was delayed by the last 2 patients in the waiting room, but I raced through them, and headed home so we could go meet our baby.

Where were you when you got 'the call'?

[mumofone]

I was at work when I got the call for our first baby boy. The Social Worker, who actually went to University with my DH, was trying to surprise me by trying to get in touch with him first. She couldn't reach him. He was off that day and had gone to visit his mom. lol

We don't have any pre-birth matches where I live, so you don't even know you are about to be parents until you are chosen. TPR must already be signed.

That entire week I had the feeling that something was up. I can't explain it, but I knew I was going to hear from our Social Worker. I'd had a dream earlier that week, and it was so vivid that DH actually went out to buy a book of baby names.
When she called me at work on Friday, my first words out of my mouth were, "I knew you were going to call today, but what took you so long?".

I'll never forget that day. What a whirlwind it was. We were to pick the baby up just two days later and had nothing. By Saturday night, we had everything, and his crib, etc. were all set up.

[becky]

I was in the parking lot of the hospital...missed her birth by about 3 minutes!!!!

[HopefulMom2bee]

I was at home getting ready to travel across the state for my SIL's bridal shower. It was about 9:30am and my phone rang and my heart stopped! Our DDs bmom's SW told me the baby had been born and was well and would be discharged the next day and that we should start to head up(it was out of state). I immediately tried calling my DH who was out on a trail mountain biking. Due to the impending birth he always had his phone on loud and vibrate on the trail so I could get ahold of him. Well, after about, literally, 30 phone calls I gave up and called my MIL and Mom because I had to tell someone! Needless to say when DH saw the 30 missed calls he knew something was up

[CPGJA]

Our son was a baby born situation. I was home that Monday morning and the phone kept ringing. Wrong numbers, appointment reminders, etc. I was actually a little bit annoyed when the phone rang. Until I picked it up and saw the adoption agency's number...but I still thought they were calling for more books. When she told us about the match, I was floored!!! I called my husband in such a panic that he thought something happened to our DD! Plus, our son was born in our state and we would be picking him up in 72 hours. It was a whirlwind. Funny thing was, we were at my BIL's over the weekend and they were asking if we had heard anything. We said no. Meanwhile, J was born and in the hospital and we just hadn't heard yet. Boy were they surprised when we called them with the news!!

Chrissy

[SupaModel]

I had called my SW earlier in the week asking her to follow up on a emom that I met online. She told me she will but can I just hold on for a day or two and she would call me back Tuesday. She never said why but of course I was hoping it was a baby. Well Tuesday came and I waited ALL DAY by the phone and no call. Finally around 7pm that night I decided to go out and get DH a chocolate milkshake from Wendy's. On the way there I was thinking she will probably call because i'm not there. I keft my phone at home so by the time I returned DH greeted me at the door telling me to hurry up and come in because SW called and she's gonna call back in 10 mins because she wants to speak with both of us. 10 mins later she called back and told she had a baby boy that was born on that past Saturday and did I want him. I cried like a baby!!!!!

Whats funny is I joined a.com on March 1st and my son was born on March 8th but I didnt know that. I look at post I wrote on the day saying how hard it is waiting and I wish I had my baby etc... and just think my baby was already here

[megaphonemo]

for #1, no joke, I was here online, surfing these forums... I swear!! got the call, and then could not get through to DH, who had stopped at the store on the way home. It was a Thursday, and she was born that morning, and home with us the following evening!

For #2, we found out we were going to be shown at the agency holiday party... and found out we were picked a week before Christmas....

[GrumblersRidge]

I can relate with DancinBear. The phone rang just as several kids walked in my door for a group English lesson. I saw the caller ID on my cell and was pretty sure it would be a possible match but having had one match that didn't work before I wasn't convinced until I picked up the phone and the SW gave me only the very sketchy information that confirmed that this wasn't a false alarm, but I didn't know anything more and I couldn't talk until after the lesson. I was a terrible teacher that day but I held it together by the skin on my teeth and the SW called back and talked to DH just as the kids were walking out the door.

But the sunshine thtat day really was the most golden ever..

[DannieAS]

I was at the Verizon store trying to update my phone....I had just started to feel better after the previous match that fell through and since it was after hours (county CPS) I wasn't expecting a call.....ha ha ha.

[Amber76]

For DS #1, on the day he was actually born I had no clue that our life was about to get infinitely better. In fact, I was really, really grieving for our daughter in Guatemala that week. I had finally packed up her things from the nursery so that we were ready for another baby when the time came. That morning, we had an earthquake here in Indiana, but I still had no clue that my world would be shaken up in lots of ways that day :-) I found out about our son in the middle of the night completely by accident when I clicked on a link to a website that I hadn't intended to visit. And there it was-the posting for a baby boy already born. I responded immediately, and a few days later the Guatemalan baby of my dreams was in my arms-via domestic adoption. Who would have thought??

Coincidentally, DancinBear, on this day last year I was packing to go to Texas to meet our second son because we had just learned that his birthmom was being in induced 2 days later!

[arkansas parent]

I was on the computer signing up with adoptuskids.com hoping to increase our chances of being matched. When the phone rang and I heard my adoption workers voice I thougt she was just needing some more papers signed or updated. We were waiting to be matched with a child age 0-8yrs so we NEVER expected to get a call to pick up a newborn in an hour and a half.

[SHD]

I remember that call like it was yesterday. The call came at 3:00am. DH was at work and had his phone turned off. He was unable to travel due to an emergency at his job so I left a bunch of messages. Fortunately I had packed ahead of time so I didn't have to scramble to get myself together. By the time I got to he airport Big Daddy turned his phone back on and called extremely excited. That plane ride I alternated between sleeping, crying and laughing at myself. So emotional. To this day I tease Big Girl about the first time I saw her. She was getting her first bath and was screaming her head off because they were washing her hair, she still hates getting her hair washed.

[jalapeno]

With my daughter, I got the call at home one morning while DH was at work. I've never liked talking on the phone and so rarely answer when I don't recognize the number. So I'm still not sure why I answered that call since it wasn't from our regular licensing worker. It was a supervisor who thought my future DD was a boy and had her name wrong. And at that time we were expecting that it would probably just be a short term foster placement. I accepted the placement without even consulting DH. We picked up our DD at the hospital the next day (she was 2 days old).

My DH got the call about our son while he was at work. Our son is our DD's bio brother. But my immediate reaction was that we could NOT take another baby. DD was just 13 months old at the time and I was nearly 5 months pregnant. When I hung up from my conversation with DH, I stared at the phone for about five minutes, then called DH back and told him I changed my mind.

[Fran27]

I was at home, kinda bored, playing an online game and waiting for something fun to happen. Dh had forgotten his cellphone, it was on the desk, and it rang. I saw it was the social worker but didn't think much of it, probably some paperwork issues again (I found out pretty fast that after a few months you don't jump anymore as soon as the phone rings).

I picked up, and she said 'hi, how are you? I have good news, you have twins'. The rest of it was kinda a blur because I was hysterical... we had no idea, it was a baby born situation.

[sugarmuffin]

I was at a Catholic Church Seminar........ the first thing Megan(lady from agency that was super cool and we had "bonded") asked was "are you sitting down?" cuz I said "yeah" and she said " I have some wonderful news for you, your daughter was born yesterday." I was speechless and just started crying and hugging everyone that was around me. The next thing was making flight arrangements and etc.

I cannot believe that was over two years ago. Wow!!