Laura

It's a lot of emotional investment to be able to do that again.

So I just don't think that we're going to have any more kids.

We're done.

I think my sessions with the therapist really helped.

I think that got me past so much of it.

And then having my son in my life and having an adoption that actually was successful, I think kind of sealed the deal.

Like, okay, that chapter of my life is over and now I'm going to move forward with my son.

Yeah.

And I think it's just, it worked out the way that it was supposed to.

And a lot of things went right too when it happened.

So-

Had any of those previous adoptions worked out, I wouldn't have had a paid maternity leave because my...

my job didn't offer it for adoption specifically.

And then the year Alex was born, so the last baby was born on Christmas Eve and Alex was born in April.

The year that he was born was the first year that they allowed paid maternity leave for adoption.

So I was like, all right, I get paid for my leave.

Yeah, so I got my paid leave.

I got...

all, I got 12 weeks with him before we put him in daycare.

Like everything just worked out the way it was supposed to.