The story starts with two people that meet in college and fall in love. They eventually get married and decide to start a family. Unfortunately, they are unable to conceive. They try artificial insemination and IVF, and they don’t work either.

After thinking long and hard about it, the couple decide to try to adopt. They put their names on the list with a placement agency, and they are told that it can take up to three years to find a child. The couple realizes that this is the only way they are going to have their family, so they jump in with both feet and they contact an adoption attorney. They are told that it usually takes about a year.

The couple prepares their profile, gets the home study, and attends the classes. Then they wait.

But…they don’t wait for long! They get a call from the attorney. The birth mother has chosen them, and she is due in a couple of days.

Oh my! Says the man, we don’t even have a nursery set up yet! Oh my! Says the woman, I don’t have time for a shower!

The couple flies all the way across the country to meet with their new baby, and they get to take the baby home!

In the six days between the last two paragraphs, the sparte bedroom became the nursery, complete with paint and a new carpet! The registry was created for all of the gifts. And the shower was planned for a week after the couple comes back home with their new addition.

The reason I am telling you this is because none of this happiness would be possible without a birth mother that chose the couple. A birth mother that loved her baby so much that she decided that she couldn’t give everything that was needed for a happy childhood.

I am that man, and my wife is that woman. There is a woman out there that has given us something that all of the money in the world couldn’t give us. She has made all of our dreams come true.

You hear every day about “heroes” that do unselfish things. That birth mother is truly a hero. She gave up her child, so that we could have a child. We don’t question her motives. In these days where abortions are easy to get, this woman carried a child for nine months.