ONE OF HER OWN

A year later, Katie had already been fostering four children. But deep within her was a longing to have her very own. Yes, fostering children makes her a happy foster mom but there’s a different kind of thrill at the thought of adopting a child. With the desire to have something more permanent, she consulted again legal professionals and/or resident lawyers.

PERFECT TIMING

Katie received a phone call two weeks after she spoke with her caseworker and the good news elated her. The call turned out that there was a baby abandoned at a hospital area and could be hers if she’s willing to go through the process. So the papers were processed by the institution’s in-house lawyers.

LIKE HER OWN

With only one day to decide, she made-up her mind and decided to take the baby boy who was just four days old. So Katie, after deciding, almost immediately went and walked out of the hospital with a baby boy of her own. She just couldn’t wait to buy all his needs even if it’d max out her credit cards.

TOUGH START

Katie who already fostered a 14-month old baby still lacked in experience taking care of a newly born. Her newly born baby boy needed a lot of care and attention and so it required a lot from her, to a degree that she had to sacrifice some time of her own, let alone hours of precious sleep. She also knew that her baby boy needed more care than any normal baby would as he had been exposed to illegal substances while still in his biological mother’s womb. According to the hospital report, he was not experiencing withdrawal symptoms while still the womb and as a result of his biological mother’s harmful behaviour, he would likely face long-term challenges. Katie on the other hand, couldn’t believe a mother would put her baby’s life at harm like that.

BABY NAME

As heart-breaking as what the baby had to go through, Katie was just so prepared to do whatever she needed to take care of the baby. Like any responsible parent would do, she may have gone over her personal checklist of what needs to be done and probably even have contemplated on updating some of her legal documents to make things official like insurance beneficiaries or the likes. But first, the baby have got to have a name!

GRAYSON

So from the hospital to the time she finally brought him home, Katie just didn’t have enough time to consider names for her baby boy. She hardly even had the time to even look up for baby names. However, after thinking hard what to name her baby, she remembered how she had always loved the boy name, Grayson to the degree that it was the only name she recalled being her favourite name for a boy. And so, Grayson became her adopted son’s name.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

It was already love before first sight for Katie. All the more that she loved Grayson when she first saw him and more and more it grew each day with him. The first bond they had was natural and instant. Try as she might to fathom who or why she loved him that much, she just couldn’t. All she knew that what she had for Baby Grayson was real and unconditional love to a degree that her maternal instinct just continuosly flowed with ease.

FULFILMENT

It wasn’t long after the eventful day of Baby Grayson’s arrival that she finally recognized her deep longing for motherhood. As fairly new and recent she was in the role, it seemed to her the fulfilment of becoming a mother void her incompleteness. Adopting Baby Grayson to be her own gave her that sense of fulfilment, stability and security that he will always be her own. This kind of love and longing just set another kind of electricity of hope and quiet trust within her.

BABY GRAYSON’S PARENTS

Caseworkers on Katie and Grayson’s case seemed at a loss on where to look for Grayson’s biological parents. While there was no question on the fact that Grayson had found a place in Katie’s heart, as a matter of due diligence though, the institution had to by all means search for his real parents. It seemed that this search would take some time and whole lot of effort of tracking even the most little details such as credit reports or hospital bills.

NOT FOUND

After thorough degree of tracking and searching for Grayson’s biological parents, it just seemed in the long run as if they didn’t want to be found in the first place. Caseworkers assigned on the case had diligently searched but to no avail. With all the newspaper print ads and Facebook posts, not one had stepped out or gave any lead information regarding the abandoned baby boy.