A Very Happy, Two-Mommy Two-Baby Boy Family
In February 2006, our advocate from Adoptive Network Cleveland got word of a 6-week-old special needs baby boy who was ready for placement, from the hospital, in a foster home. We were lucky enough to have gotten our foster care home license that very day.
The baby had multiple medical problems and several potential surgeries and therapies, but we knew we could handle this. I was a former special-ed teacher and my partner worked so I could stay home with him.
We went to the hospital to talk with the doctors and meet our new foster baby. We met him and fell in love, then, elated but nervous, we left to return the next day to take him home. I held my sickly little baby boy. I did not conceive, nor carry him, but I already loved him.
In July 2007, when our social worker did her monthly visit to our home she asked if we were ready to reopen our home to potentially take new children. Jacob was 18 months old and starting to walk. He was still tube fed, but doing much better. So we nervously agreed. Little did we know that she would call back THAT DAY with a 15-day-old baby boy in need of placement! We picked him up, the next day, from the county hospital and he's been with us since.
Now it is November 2007 and our boys are thriving. Jacob is walking and running, and turning 2 next month. He is a genuine miracle and has beaten all the odds of his predicted outcome. The baby is almost 5 months old, eating like it's going out of style and hitting his developmental milestones right on time. We're not sure if the baby will be available for adoption, but he has quickly bonded with us and we hope to adopt him.
We are a very happy, two-mommy two-baby boy family. I stay home with our sons and my partner Karen goes to work. She happily says that "I have a job, Jennifer is the one who works!
That's our story. One of challenges, uncertainty, hope, and the love of our sons that existed even before the moment we met them.
Jennifer, Cleveland, Ohio
Nov. 26, 2007