A summary of the last 10 years...
our wedding, started trying to conceive 6 months later, 2 fertility specialists and 12 unsuccessful IF procedures between them, moving on, back to school, new career, catching the travel bug, the paper pregnancy, a geriatric dog, a World Series, a zip code change, a new job for Hubbs, a failed assumption, and waiting for baby all the while.
Dec 1999 Married sans birth control...any day now!
Jan 2001 Nothing happening...Referred to specialist by ob/gyn
July 2001 to Jan 2002 6 IUIs (artificial insem)...all failed
May 2002 IVF/ICSI #1...failed
Nov 2002 IVF/ICSI #2...failed
Mar 2003 IVF/ICSI #3...failed
July 2003 Frozen embryo transfer...failed
Oct 2003 Second opinion in Maryland
Feb 2004 IVF/ICSI #4 with new doc...failed
May 2004 IVF/ICSI #5...failed
June 2004 Decided to stop treatment
Aug 2007 Hey, let's adopt!
Jan 2008 Started paperwork for adoption and signed with facilitator
Mar 2008 Approved to adopt...officially waiting:)
June 2009 Signed with adoption consultant
Aug 2009 Match #1 with emom due in January!
Jan 2010 Emom decided to parent
Mar 2010 Match #2 with emom due in April!
Apr 2010 Match failed...but new, immediate situation available for 2-month old. Traveled out of state and took temporary legal custody
May 2010 Came home with baby girl:)
July 2010 Adoption finalized
Excerpt from: The Guide To Adoption by Douglas R. Donnelly, 1987, Focus on the Family Publications
"Take 2 separate tragedies: an unplanned pregnancy and a couple grieving over an infertility problem and combining them in such a way as to solve both problems simultaneously is exciting beyond words. Through grace, the birthmother makes a painful, but heroic decision and is granted the strength to see that decision through. And also through grace, the adopting parents accept a child into their home and bestow on that child their name, their material possessions, and the fullest measure of their love and affection. A special bond exists between birthmothers and adopting parents. They have together, through a teamwork of the most magnificent kind, created a human being…in a way which neither could have done without the other. There is no greater human example of grace. "
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