Where we are now - Part 1

In the week since the babies were born, we've had some ups and downs both with them and with their birth parents. The adoption papers can't be signed until at least 48 hours after the babies are born, and during that time Christina was having a lot of difficulty with the idea of losing her babies. We plan to have an open adoption and keep in contact, but they will be living far away from her and she won't be parenting them. The birth father was also upset that there was no way to legally guarantee that we would keep in touch.

When the time came to sign the papers on Saturday, Christina and the birth father thought that they would try to raise the babies themselves, with help from their families and friends.

This news was, of course, devastating to us, but we decided to stick around for a few more days to see what happened. We knew that Christina had been very committed to the adoption throughout her pregnancy for some very good reasons, and we hoped that she would remember those reasons once she had some time to think about it.

Monday morning, she called us to say that she had thought about it and knew that going through with the adoption was the right thing to do, and that she was ready to go to her lawyer's office and sign the papers. We drove to the office with her, she signed the papers, and we brought her back to the apartment where she finally got some much-needed rest. We got a message from the birth father saying that he agreed that this was the right thing, and that he supported Christina's decision.