The Longest Wait ..... Encouragement Stories with Positive Results!

Hello all,

I am just putting this out there as a possible encouragement to all of the loving families in this dreadful time of waiting.  When I first started with Cafe Mom about 1 1/2 years ago I came on to look for support and encouragement during this adoption process and to find other moms in waiting that would understand my irritations and frustrations (mostly impatience) with adoption.  I found the longest wait forum to be very helpful and gave me piece of mind that I wasn't crazy and other waiting adoptive moms have the same fears and frustrations.

So, I thought maybe .... just maybe it would or could be encouraging to have those who have been through the longest wait with success with a match to post here to show that it DOES really happen!  Perhaps and maybe share the adoption story.

Our Story,

Sean my wonderful husband and I were in the thick of the longest wait EVER... so we felt.  We had gotten to the point where we prayed daily that God would match us with the son meant for us.  We knew that once he was "done baking in some woman's tummy" God would unite us.

Our beautiful son was born on 9/9/09 in NC (which is my home state where a lot of dear friends and all of my family still live).  The birth mom had previously chosen another adoptive family but as she said "never felt right"  then she found out that the adoptive family was from Canada and didn't want her son so far away that there wouldn't be a possibility of ever seeing him again.  She chose a new agency and our profile along with another family's profile was sent to her.  She choose us.  We received the call about our son on 9/11/09 at 2:23 PM and we were told on 9/12/09 that we were chosen and to get on the next flight out to NC.  We cried like babies... it was amazing!!!!

Within 4 hours we were taking the red eye to NC from UT.  We met our son on 9/13/09 at 11:30 in the morning.  Can I just say there was no sleep for the last 48 hours.  He was still in the hospital where he was born and we were asked to stay the night to go through all the new parent education and to be in the hospital for the first night with support.  IT WAS WONDERFUL! 

We named our son Landon Taylor.  He is Caucasian and he was born to a 27 y.o. married mother and father who had made some bad decisions regarding abuse of prescription drugs.  Landon was born with an addition to opiates.  The birth father was just incarcerated with drug charges and the birth mother was arrested at the hospital only 5 hours after the birth of Landon and taken to county jail.  The birth mom had been visited by CPS (as far as we understand) and was told that she and her husband would not have the opprotunity to raise this child so her options were to place the child for adoption or the child would be taken into CPS custody. 

We met the birth mom very briefly at the county jail.  MUCH TOO BRIEFLY.  We also were able to meet the paternal grandparents who were currently raising Landon's 2 y.o. big brother.  It was a very nervous and lovely encounter at the same time.  The entire family is incredibly loving and very sad to have to place Landon for adoption.

We couldn't be happier to have Landon in our lives.  Though he was born with opiets in his system and he does have some withdrawl symptoms he is a delight!

Before we took Landon home to UT he was able to meet all of my wonderful friends and family in NC.  The birth place couldn't have been more perfect!

I leave you with this as my biggest message:

God knows what he is doing!  He will give you the child meant for you!  We have to remember that Gods plan and the time frame he works is much different than our human time frame.... be patient and prayerful... GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS!!!

I know the wait is hard, but remember it is allllll worth it in the end!

With much love and respect,

Alpine