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When Hannah first told us that she was pregnant, we were devastated, to say the least. I don’t know that there’s even a good enough word for how we felt. A lot of crying, a lot of screaming, the first few days were not pretty. It was really, really, really difficult.
We had our family over and just sort of cried together and tried to process it.
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When I found out I was pregnant, I felt very nervous. It was not expected. I felt very overwhelmed. My first thought was I was going to keep it. I never considered adoption, never thought that I could be so strong to do so.
I didn’t decide on adoption or keep whether to keep the child until after 20 weeks.
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“I could talk about adoption and my love of adoption for days and days. Both of my oldest daughters were internationally adopted from Vietnam. I became a mom the first two times because of adoption. I’m one of the lucky ones that has both adopted and been able to be pregnant, as my third daughter is biological.
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All a mother ever wants is for her children to flourish, to grow like good Lord above intended. Sure it’s expected for there to be a time, or several times that your child makes mistakes, but they can learn from them and then all is well… Right? Wrong.
I have two beautiful, healthy kids that my husband and I had a little bit later in life,
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Even when my family threw me a baby shower, I still wasn’t sure my husband and I were going to be able to do this. I was 6 months pregnant with a one-year-old at home. I had stopped working because of how tough the pregnancy was on me and we had just moved to Texas for my job.
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