What's in a name?

After a great deal of thought and input from friends, I finally settled on a new name for the blog: Believing in Miracles.

I ran across a quote from Valerie Harper, an adoptive mother, several months ago while doing some random adoption research: "However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle". It really touched me because it speaks not only to our adoption journey, but also to our entire family.

We've been through 7 IVF procedures in the last 4 years, producing 1 pregnancy and 1 beautiful child. She was delivered 7 weeks premature by emergency C-section due to an unexplained loss of amniotic fluid that was discovered by a chance, unscheduled ultrasound. So yes, we have always considered her our miracle baby.

As we wait and hope to be chosen by a birth mother, it helps that we already believe in miracles because we've experienced it first hand. We know that there is another child out there for us. As Valerie said, regardless of how that child comes into our lives, it will be no less of a miracle than Riley was.