it’s all happening

it’s a weird feeling having to let go having biological children but, ultimately, who cares! We want to be parents. Biological or not, we will love these babies with all we have in us!

We signed up with a wonderful embryo adoption agency while also working with our clinic. We were given 2-3 profiles every week from the agency but never felt the pull to any of them. We believed that we would absolutely know when it was the right family. A lot of prayer, waiting, patience and impatience, and several deep conversations.

We got so close a couple of times to move forward but something always held us back. A few months into the adoption process, I received a call from our clinic to let us know they had two families they thought were perfect for us and wanted us to come in to review them. This was different than the agency because we had to go in-person to view the profiles.

because this is so important to us, we cleared our schedules and made ourselves available asap. We sat in a room for close to an hour flipping through all of the pages of both profiles. We read through every piece of family history, every step on their journey, and every little detail we were provided.

we were reading one of the donor family’s letters to the adoptive family and a specific sentence stood out to us, “we believe these embryos deserve a chance at life.” that hit us. that was the feeling we needed. we knew these were our embryos.

the only issue, there were only two available. our coordinator walked back in and asked us what we were thinking. I told her, “we love family A but it worries us that there are only two embryos. with all we’ve been through and the amount of children we want, we were hoping for four.” she says, “well, actually, there are four available from this family, we had just split them. let me check with the medical director and see if he’ll approve you to have all four.”

we received a call about a week later. we were able to adopt all four. and we did.

the day we found our embryos!