Julia Noelle Wright was born!!

Julia Noelle Wright was born on November 30, 2007 at 7:25 p.m. ..but her mommy and daddy didn't even know about her until the next day at noon (= Julia was born by C-section on Friday night after her birth mother checked into the hospital on Tuesday. She was 7 pounds, 6 ounces and 18 1/2 inches long. Her Apgar scores were excellent and the nurses took wonderful care of her during the night until her mommy and daddy got there the next day. Julia's birthmother reviewed profiles the morning after Julia was born and so we got "the call" around noon on Saturday, December 1st. We are so grateful that Julia's birthmother had it in her heart to place the baby for adoption and we're honored that she chose us to be her parents.

Maybe cancel those Turkey Day plans?

On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, we received another phone call that the birth mother who we were being presented to could go into labor at any time and we should probably stick around town in case she did go into labor and in case she did in fact choose us. We tried hard not to get our hopes up...but spent most of Thanksgiving and the rest of the weekend waiting anxiously by the phone. I did convince David to get a carseat and an emergency diaper bag with a few unisex outfits just in case (even though we knew this particular baby was a girl, we figured we could use those clothes later if this baby wasn't meant for us).

The First Phone Call

On Monday, Kim was sitting with her Mom and nephew Andrew in the Rainforest Cafe in Nashville when our adoption agent called us to say that there was a potential birth mother who was actually already a couple of day overdue. When asked whether we wanted our profile to be presented,we of course said an enthusiastic "YES" and were so happy that we were being presented. Since this was the first birth mother that would look at our profile, we felt like the waiting process was now officially underway. We crossed our fingers and hoped that this would be our baby--but we knew that even if we didn't get picked this time, every time our profile was presented we were closer and closer to "our time."