For those of you who haven't heard, we finally got out baby!! She was born on Wednesday!!! She weighed 7 pounds 1 oz and is 21 inches long! We are so happy to have her here!!So, I have to begin from the beginning of how this precious baby came in to our lives! (And I'm calling her baby because sadly we have not decided on her name yet!) So, about a month and a half ago we were contacted by our agency regarding a baby. We prayed, talked about it and decided that we wanted to adopt this baby!!! Things have just fallen into place since so we could come and get our baby girl!!!
Originally the agency told us to be ready any day! Well.. that any day turned in to weeks. We had made arrangements with work and everything so we could take off in October!! Well by Monday of this week, November 14, we still didn't have a baby. But on Wednesday we finally got the call! So, we booked tickets and headed to North Carolina!!
Day 1- Thursday November 17, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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| Waiting to leave SLC so we could go get our BABY!!! |
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| My mom and dad came with us!! |
Once we landed in North Carolina we had to wait for our Case Worker to get everything together so we could get all the papers signed and meet our sweet baby! While waiting, we got the call letting us know that our sweet baby was admitted to the NICU. She hadn't been eating and was very stressed. This was one of the scariest, hardest things I've been through! Waiting for the birthmom to sign and finding out what was going on with the baby. But...
Finally we got together, my baby's birthmom signed the papers and we signed! She is officially ours!!
Then we got to go see our sweet baby!
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| Holding our baby for the first time!!! |
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| She's already a daddy's girl! |
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| Day 2 in the NICU - November 18 *she was holding her temperature on her own so they moved her into a crib! This was also her first outfit!!! |
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| Proud grandparents! |
13 comments:
Aww....your story makes me cry! She is adorable and you guys look so awesome with a baby in your arms!
Congratulations!! I am so happy that everything went so smoothly and that she is getting better!!
Congrats! She's beautiful* Enjoy enjoy enjoy as much as possible, it really goes by so quick :)!
She's adorable! I had no idea you guys were adopting. I'm so glad everything fell into place with this sweet little one. You guys will be great parents. Congrats!
That is an amazing story it is wonderful that you were blessed with such a sweet little baby. You guys will make amazing parents, she is a lucky little baby.
She's darling Amanda! I'm so excited for you! You'll be a great mom. :)
Congrats!! She is such a beauty and sure is one lucky little girl!
=) This makes my heart warm! What a blessing you will be to that little girl... and in return she will do the same for you. Glad things are looking up with her health. We are so excited for you guys! Wish we all lived closer so we could have play dates! Love you!
I didn't know you had a blog; I am so glad you do! I loved reading about your new baby girl. She is so beautiful, and I am so happy for you guys!
I hope everything is going well. We went through that with Sawyer and it was one of the hardest things I have ever been through. NICU is no fun, but I'm sure grateful they have professionals that know what they are doing. I hope the baby gets doing better soon. You will be in our prayers. Congratulations on becoming parents there really isn't anything better in the whole world. It's amazing the things our Heavenly Father blesses us with.
Congrats Amanda!! I am so happy for you. Adoption is the BEST way to have a family. All three of our children are adopted. Our greatest trial of not being able to have a family, has turned out to be our greatest joy! Welcome to the best time of your life. You are going to be a fabulous mother and I am so thrilled that you are in the "adoption club." Miracles Happen!
Julie Wilding Dustin
Oh she's beautiful! Congrats! I'm so excited for you guys. You'll be great parents. She's a lucky girl. Hope you are getting some sleep with that cute little bundle!
Beautiful!!! Cody and Amanda we are so excited for you. :)
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