Elizabeth's Story

Elizabeth, Our Miracle sent from Above

(After 18 years of praying for a baby God has blessed us thru the miracle of "adoption" this is our story)

For 18 years we had longed for a baby to love and call our own,  I knew in God's perfect timing he would bless us with a baby!!!  I never knew it would take so long for our prayers to be answered, but all the hurt and pain have vanished away now that we have been so blessed with our precious baby girl "Elizabeth Hannah"!!!

{1997}  We had reached the 15 year mark of our marriage and we had been praying once again for a baby and decided to go thru another round of fertility treatments to see if we were ever going to be able to have children, { unless God blessed us with a "Miracle". } We hadn't went thru fertility treatments since our 5 year mark of marriage and we had been diagnosed then with "unexplained" infertility.  We needed to know if with all the new technology if we were ever going to have a baby!  So we once again endured the rollercoaster ride of fertility treatments.  The Dr. had thought I had been getting pregnant and miscarriaging most of our marriage and didn't have enough progesterone to keep me from miscarriaging. So he kept giving me natural progesterone but it was never enough.  After a year of this we had had enough disappointments and decided enough was enough and if God wanted us to have a baby we would!!! {We had went thru 3 adoption scams during our marriage so Adoption was the last thing on our mind at this time!!! {1999}

We had never really wanted to have the internet brought into our home but we both had agreed that maybe it was time to go online with my Victorian Business and if we ever did get pregnant I would hopefully get to be a stay at home mom and do my business from home. Well, our very first night online I decided to do a search on "Infertility" to see if there was any info. or anyone else out there that had a progesterone problem like me .  I was very computer illiterate so I knew God had to be guiding my "fingersteps" so to speak!  My very first search and a page came up called "Hannah's Prayers". I got goosebumps from head to toe knowing it must be biblical and for the last 4 years every time I got discouraged over praying for a baby every time I opened my bible it would fall open to Samuel and how Hannah had prayed for a baby and God had blessed her.  So I was very curious about this site!!!

The very first page on her site had "Christian Adoption" at the bottom of her page, but I wasn't even interested in "Adoption" because of all the hurt we had went thru in the past.  So I checked out the rest of her site and got so touched and blessed with all the inspirations and things.  But after a few hours I had this longing to at least see what this "Christian Adoption" thing was all about!  So I clicked on the button and still hadn't realized it was just a link on Hannah's Prayer's web site and didn't know until several months later! { I said I was very computer illiterate and I really meant it! Ha! Ha!}  Anyway getting back to Christian Adoption.  I clicked the button and kept checking all these pages and pages of wonderful stories and pictures of people wanting to adopt, and people who had successfully adopted ,and it had pictures of them with their beautiful babies!!!  I cried so many tears of joy and happiness for all of these Christian couples that God had blessed right here in the states and with newborns and very little cost!  I was on her site for over 4 hours and didn't want to get off of it!  It was too good to be true or was it truly God showing me this was where our baby was coming thru?  I knew deep in my heart that God had led me there and had felt so strong that this was where our baby was coming from!

The next morning I told my husband all about it and how I found it and how I thought God had led me to it!  He was happy for my excitement but he also thought I was nuts to even consider the internet for adoption!!! So I started checking all of this stuff out thru the better business bureau and e-mailed every reference on her site.  Everything came back with all praise and nothing bad to say about it and nothing negative from the better business bureau.  So after another 6 months of ups and downs and trying other directions for adoption and deciding on why we should or shouldn't go thru Christian Adoption God had finally given my husband the peace of mind to give this thing a try! I have left a lot of our story out but all I can say is God really worked a very special "Miracle" to get us to believe this was really his direction for us!  SO we went online and 2 months later our "birth family" picked us to be blessed with our "God Sent Angel" and we were able to be there at the hospital and I watched her be born and was the first to see, hold and feed her! We will never forget our long awaited birth of our baby after 18 years of praying!!!

God has blessed us beyond measure and we will always be grateful to our wonderful "birth family" who chose us to be blessed with such a wonderful "gift of life" when so many others have chosen abortion. We thank God daily for letting us find Christian Adoption and we will always be so thankful to such a wonderful Christian lady named Deborah Hill who started such a wonderful ministry to help others. She will always be such a very special part of our miracle and we will always be grateful that God led us to her!!!   God has truly given us a "Miracle"  and we thank him daily for our precious little Angel "Elizabeth Hannah" sent straight from Above!!!  Yes we believe in "Miracles" and we hope that maybe after reading our story so will you!

All our prayers n' many blessings,
Heirloom

(just in case anyone may be interested  this is Christian Adoptions website  
www.christianadoption.com )