Jan 07 2009
The Miracle of my daughter
Only happy thoughts today! I’ll talk more about the journey later, but right now I want to tell you about the destination. I would take the struggling path again and again to get to our little girl. Dh and I had been married nearly 12 years when she came into our lives. We had decided it wasn’t meant to be for us to be parents and we needed to accept that. We got to that point in November of 2002~at peace with it. Then on Feb. 21, 2003 we got a phone call that would bless our life forever. An older couple that we knew asked us if we would consider adopting their unborn grandchild. They were raising their daughter’s two older children and couldn’t raise another. We prayed and then said yes. Before long we met the birthmom, she was at about 20 weeks and had found out that it was to be a little girl. I got to feel “punkin pie” in her tummy and I fell in love. The sonogram pictures hung proudly at my desk while I took on extra days to help pay the adoption expenses.
A short, hectic, and stressful 12 weeks later, dh and I got to go to a doctor’s appt. with the bmom. Everything looked great and she looked like she would go full-term. Less than 24 hours later, we were on our way to the hospital because the bmom was in full blown labor and was going to deliver at anytime. We arrived at about 4:45 pm and our miracle was born at 5:07. I got to see my daughter born. She shot out lightning fast and has been going ever since. Born at 32 weeks 4 days as healthy as could be topping the scale at 4 lbs 1/2 oz!! Within about 5 minutes of delivery, the bmom passed her to me asking if I wanted to hold “my daughter”! That was a powerful moment in my life that I will never forget. We say that punkin finally got to meet her parents and was ready to join our family no matter what the calendar said! We were finally complete and really learned what it meant to be “at peace”! See Ya Soon!
