Chad and I had just sat down to eat a quick lunch before starting a Sunday afternoon of projects when I happened to look at my phone and realized I had missed a phone call. The number was restricted. I asked Chad if he had one too and he did!!! The only restricted calls we got was from Adoption Network Law Center! I called them and they said they had an immediate birth situation and wanted to know if we could leave to go to Memphis, Tennessee to pick up a baby boy born only 2 days earlier. After hearing all of the medical information and background on the birthparents we were sooo excited and accepted. It almost seemed too good to be true.
The birthparents were a married couple who already had 6 other children. Mom didn't even know she was pregnant until 2 weeks before she gave birth and one week before Dad had gotten laid off of work. They could not support another child so they decided to give the baby to us! What an amazing act of love!!!!
Well of course we couldn't contain the news and we called the new grandparents to be! We called all of the important people in our lives, including work to let them know we were going out of town for a while to bring back our son! My friend Lindsay Hanes came over and we ran out to grab some essentials we would need in our hotel. Being in another state we would have to wait up to 2 weeks for the Interstate Compact to go through.
We packed quickly and headed out around 6:00PM. We stopped in Marion, IL about 10PM so we could get some sleep and head out early. We had talked with the birthparents and agreed to meet at 10am at the hospital. They already seemed amazing and I couldn't wait to meet them. Of course I couldn't wait to meet our new little guy so I only slept like 2 hours that night. The next day would change our lives forever!!!
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