national adoption month

I love that there is a month dedicated to adoption and adoption awareness.  I love adoption.  I love that I have the opportunity to build my family through adoption.  I know that, at this point in time, it is the way that Dan and I are meant to bring children into our family.  I will never forget when I came to that realization…

Dan and I attended an adoption orientation meeting at LDS Family Services in April 2006.  We had been unsuccessful in getting pregnant or even in being told why I couldn’t get pregnant for 2 1/2 years and decided to explore other options.  After that meeting, I told Dan that I wasn’t ready for adoption.  I felt like we were giving up too easily.  So, we took a break from it all.  When we went back to the doctor a few months later, we were immediately referred to a fertility clinic in our area.  After a couple months of medications and tests, we were told that I had PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and that our next step was artificial insemination.  As we did some research and tried to make a decision, I knew that further fertility treatments was not the road for us.  I knew it was time to explore the adoption option.  Almost a year after our first orientation meeting, we attended another one and started our paperwork.  A little less than a year later, we welcomed Lincoln into our family.  As we are waiting to be chosen for a second time, I am so excited at the prospect of going through the journey again.

Adoption is amazing.  I will always love Lincoln’s birthmother for making me a mom.  I cannot even begin to imagine what birthmom’s go through.  Words will never be enough to say thank you to all the birth moms who help make women like me mothers.  Adoption is a blessing.