Our Adopted Blessing

I always, since I can remember, have wanted to be a mom. My husband and I tried for over 2 years to get pregnant. We only went as far as hormones. I gained 30 pounds the two months that I took them. We both felt that forcing a pregnancy wasn't for us. We felt that Heavenly Father didn't want me pregnant for some reason. It seemed that everyone I knew was getting pregnant. Even the ones that never really wanted children. This made life even harder for me.

We wanted to adopt. We didn't have a lot of money. We went through our church's family services. I remembered that an adoptive parent I had met when we were first married told me to tell everyone I knew that we were trying to adopt, if we ever needed to adopt. She also went on to say, "You will be surprised where your children will come from." So, after everything was under way, that's exactly what we did. We went through a very hard year. We were both paramedics and the company we worked for decided to close the station where we were working. We were forced to take a huge pay cut and go to work for the company that had bought the first company's equipment. We only worked there for a short while. I took a job in classifieds at our local paper, an even bigger pay cut. (It was the only way I could work when we did get our baby.) My husband was offered a better job with another ambulance company in the same city. Less than a month after he took this new job, I had decided to take a paper route and quit the job I hated so much in classifieds. A week after I had given my notice, his hours and pay were both cut. I almost withdrew my notice, which I hated to do, because if we had a baby I wanted to be at home with him/her. My husband wouldn't let me stay in classifieds, he said we would manage somehow. We still had money that had to be paid on our adoption when we got our child. Four days after beginning my paper route, I received a call from our social worker.(My husband was at work) She asked would we be willing to adopt a baby from someone that we knew. I couldn't imagine who this someone could be. I didn't know anyone that was pregnant. I immediately said yes. I couldn't believe it. It was another paramedic we had worked with at our 2nd job that year. She had kept her pregnancy a secret from everyone. She was pregnant when we worked with her. We had no idea. Anyway, everything I had prayed for came true. There was no doubt that this little girl was meant to be ours. I had prayed for a little girl, born around the first of Nov., that would be petite, so that we could get hand me downs from my husband's sister. It all came true. Michaela(Makayla) was born 1 yr. and 1 day after our niece. I prayed that we would find our baby. And we did. The birth mother had contacted our church and told them that we were the ones that should have her baby. They tried to talk her out of it, because they don't deal in open adoptions, but she was persistant. And there is no doubt that Michaela would have been the baby that we would have had if we could have gotten pregnant. So many upsetting events were necessary in our lives to lead us to her and to her birthmother. Looking back, losing great jobs was a small price to pay to be able to have our baby. We brought her home from the hospital at 1 day old. We are eternally grateful for the unselfish act of this person. We are also eternally grateful to Heavenly Father for making sure that he sent our baby to someone who would have the strength to do the right thing.

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