Adrenaline energized Sayoko as she maneuvered her hastily packed carry-on through the security line at New York’s JFK airport. “We’d planned on driving down to Florida and meeting with the…
“He was a scary, tiny baby,” Cherrie recalls seeing her son for the first time. Telling her story four months later, her voice still cracks with emotion. “I’ve never seen…
In an earlier post, we discussed Monica and her wonderful, loving experience with Alexis*. Alexis opted to give birth and then trust Monica and her husband to raise the tiny…
Three failures and then hooray-- On Saturday, June 11, at 6:45 pm, we were having dinner out with friends. My phone rang. Pulling it out, I saw "Darla H2H". "Probably…
Hope was overwhelming when our home study was done. The profile book was completed. And we were active. How would we find our baby? We were with a consultant and…
On day five, the birth mother "revoked." Leah and Nate had held the child, comforted the baby, fed the baby, and then carefully dressed the infant for the cold weather…
Even as her heart rejoiced with beautiful, little Emma, Becca was aware of another story. A story that wasn't necessarily wonderful and exciting. A story that led to a…
