A tale of that wacky world of infertility that has now spiraled into the fascinating world of Guatemalan adoption and now... Parenting a child who's smile lights up the world, has a laugh that would drive the meanest person to hysterics and who also happens to have a genetic deletion at 16p11.2.
WOW - I just read this yesterday !(I'm a big NPR fan) I sent it my husband because I thought he could relate. It left me teary-eyed knowing my little man will, too, never look like me but he's made ME the woman I wanted to be.
But ... forgive me ... I take issue wiith this one statement -
"In the next year or two, a little girl will be born and her parents will not want her."
"Cannot keep and raise her" might very well be the case.
Not only in China, but in all countries, that may be the reason a child is offered for adoption.
Sometimes it is due to age, finances, or a vast variety of reasons that shape a birth mother's decision not to parent herself. And while birth mothers are forever thankful that their child finds loving parents such as the writer here, her heart will also forever hope all are aware surrendering the babe wasn't due to "not wanting", but rather actually "wanting" the best.
A small distinction, perhaps, but an important one.
WOW - I just read this yesterday !(I'm a big NPR fan) I sent it my husband because I thought he could relate. It left me teary-eyed knowing my little man will, too, never look like me but he's made ME the woman I wanted to be.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteWow, awesome story. Made me teary-eyed too. Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful, and so heartfelt.
ReplyDeleteBut ... forgive me ... I take issue wiith this one statement -
"In the next year or two, a little girl will be born and her parents will not want her."
"Cannot keep and raise her" might very well be the case.
Not only in China, but in all countries, that may be the reason a child is offered for adoption.
Sometimes it is due to age, finances, or a vast variety of reasons that shape a birth mother's decision not to parent herself.
And while birth mothers are forever thankful that their child finds loving parents such as the writer here, her heart will also forever hope all are aware surrendering the babe wasn't due to "not wanting", but rather actually "wanting" the best.
A small distinction, perhaps, but an important one.
Greatt blog you have
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