Sandy and I were both a bit nervous--we had no reference point with which to even imagine what this could be like, but it all went very well.
We're both glad to have met her; we feel like an important psychological/emotional part of the adoption is completed. In a sense, she "gave" Peter to us today. She held him for a while, but really did sit back and let Sandy do all that a mother does. She said several times that she was content with her decision, and that she knows she made the right choice.
What do you say to a woman whose son you are holding and will soon take out of her life--to a woman who has made such a wrenchingly final decision to give her son to people she's never even met?
Well, hard as it probably is to imagine, not much. There was nothing for me to say...I just sat back and listened and watched, awed by this woman's generosity and courage.
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