My mom came up for a few days to spend some time with the kids and I before starting back to school. Around 3:30pm Dan called me on my cell phone and said that Ray (our attorney) called him and said we possibly just missed out on an awesome adoption opportunity by a hair. There was a birthmom that delivered a baby boy in Pittsburgh just the day before and decided not to keep him. However, Ray then said that there was another family in the running but that he would let us know. In the meantime Marion (our legal assistant) called with another african american 15month old boy that needed to be picked up in Alabama by Saturday. Our minds were going 100 miles an hour. She told us that if we felt interested in either that we should start packing our bags just in case because we would need to leave that night. At this point I personally had mentally given up on the Pittsburgh baby boy as that seemed to good to even be true- it would never work out!
Within the next 2 hours, we were in the midst of a whirlwind . . . packing to get on our way to Pittsburgh! I was all so surreal!
After driving all night and feeling worried, anxious, nervous etc. We arrived in PA at our families house around 6am. We were exhausted but ready to face the big day!
We headed up to the hospital to meet the birth mom around 9am, and on the way stopped to get her a beautiful mixed bouquet of roses. We had to be at the hospital at 10am to sign papers per the birth mom.
On the way, the attorney called to tell me to call the birthmom, so I did. This is where things began taking a different turn. The birth mom was upset and crying - apparently a family member had been at the wrong place at the wrong time and was killed in a drive by just a few days earlier and this was the day of the funeral.
Upon arriving at the hospital with a beautiful bouquet in hand and nervous as nervous can be, we found our way up to the maternity floor.
We met the sweetest nurse named Donna- she informed us that the birthmom had just left and checked herself out of the hospital. Our day began taking a much different turn . . .
She did sign for us to be able to hold, take pictures and see the baby, so we did. We ended up spending the rest of the day there in that muted pink hospital room . . . it seemed like that day would never end!
I did have the privilege of speaking with the birthmom several times on the phone and we were praying that things would continue to go as planned.
After meeting with social workers and going over documents and health records and finally meeting with her attorney, around 5pm baby boy and us were discharged! Exhausted, happy and anticipating what the next day would bring we were on our way back to see family.
Within the next 2 hours, we were in the midst of a whirlwind . . . packing to get on our way to Pittsburgh! I was all so surreal!
After driving all night and feeling worried, anxious, nervous etc. We arrived in PA at our families house around 6am. We were exhausted but ready to face the big day!
We headed up to the hospital to meet the birth mom around 9am, and on the way stopped to get her a beautiful mixed bouquet of roses. We had to be at the hospital at 10am to sign papers per the birth mom.
On the way, the attorney called to tell me to call the birthmom, so I did. This is where things began taking a different turn. The birth mom was upset and crying - apparently a family member had been at the wrong place at the wrong time and was killed in a drive by just a few days earlier and this was the day of the funeral.
Upon arriving at the hospital with a beautiful bouquet in hand and nervous as nervous can be, we found our way up to the maternity floor.
We met the sweetest nurse named Donna- she informed us that the birthmom had just left and checked herself out of the hospital. Our day began taking a much different turn . . .
She did sign for us to be able to hold, take pictures and see the baby, so we did. We ended up spending the rest of the day there in that muted pink hospital room . . . it seemed like that day would never end!
I did have the privilege of speaking with the birthmom several times on the phone and we were praying that things would continue to go as planned.
After meeting with social workers and going over documents and health records and finally meeting with her attorney, around 5pm baby boy and us were discharged! Exhausted, happy and anticipating what the next day would bring we were on our way back to see family.
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