Laura
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So we're in contact with a mom.
We had been matched for a while.
We're like texting her.
Everything seems to be going fine.
She texts us and says, I'm going into labor.
Can you come down?
And this is in, we're in Milwaukee.
This is in Chicago.
So it's an hour and a half drive.
So we drive down there and then we're texting her.
What hospital are you at?
And she never replies.
And then keep trying to contact her.
She never replies, never replies.
And finally the agency gets in contact with her and she decides to keep the child.
So that was very devastating for us on multiple ways, but all of them were devastating on multiple levels.
But that was the first time it had happened.
And Franklin was very, my husband, Franklin was very optimistic about the whole thing.
He was like, yeah, this is going to work right now.
I have a baby today.