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Paula & Brent
WE HAVE A COMPLAINT! We put our profile live on the ParentProfiles.com profile site over the Thanksgiving weekend, and were looking forward to a peaceful Christmas season with family and friends. Much to our surprise, five days before Christmas, we got a call from the mother of a birthmother who was about to deliver what turned out to be a healthy baby boy with a terrific set of lungs. He was born in a hospital in the southern part of our state that is about three hours drive from our home. His mother already had two children and just wasn’t able to take care of any other children.
To make a long story short, we were with the birth mother in the delivery room on Christmas Eve when he was born. We were the first to hold him and even got to cut the umbilical cord. We slept in the hospital that night and spent all of Christmas with him in the hospital. (We found out that he loves football.)
Because we brought our son home on the day after Christmas, we missed Christmas dinner with our family. We didn’t get even one good night’s sleep over the entire holiday season, and none of our family and friends even came to see us. They all came over just to see this noisy baby boy that has us totally wrapped around his teeny little finger. That just isn’t what we expected when we decided to put up our profile. I think you should consider putting a warning label on your website, explaining what can really happen to unsuspecting couples like us. Isn’t that only fair?
Seriously though, we are so grateful for this wonderful and totally unexpected gift in our lives. Thank you for the important part you have played in this process. We will be back for #2 as soon as we get caught up on our sleep, which could be awhile. Keep up the good work!