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We wish the families of these precious June baby boy's a lifetime of good health and much happpiness. Congratulations to all!

Welcome baby Joshua Thomas! Congratulations Laurel, Casey and big brother Zach! May God watch over and bless everyone in Joshua's newly blended family! A blelated big Welcome and Congratulations to all our new Abrazo Babies and their wonderful families!

Cogratulations to all the new families. May the joy and love you feel today only continue to grow with time. Blessings, Kathy

Welcome beautiful baby Tyler! Many blessing to you and all your family!

Welcome precious baby Brennan! Congratulations to the Cornish family and Meg! May life's blessing be abundant for you all.

What a beautiful family! Congratulations Joe and Kim. Wishing you and your birthfamily many happy days ahead.

Dreams do come true! Congratulations to all families who were blessed today. May this just be the beginning of your "happily ever after". Prayers being said for your special Birth families.

Marcelo, Claudia, Dante, Serenity Nicole and beautiful Birthmom, What a beutiful family you have grown with God's blessings. May this new journey bloom into a lifetime of friendship and love! Congrautlations to you all!!

Heather, I found this under another topic heading and thought it might be useful. It appears to be right in line with what Adam said.

Girls, Girls, Girls! Congratulations to the families who are forever joined by them!

Char and Scott, What an awesome answer to prayer. Congratulations! What a beautiful example of faith, love and courage from both families. May you all continue to recieve God's blessings!

Welome beautiful baby Jack! May God bless you, your parents, and birthparents always!

Congratulations and welcome baby Logan! What a beautiful baby you are. All our best to both families for a bright future together.

So well said. I couldn't agree more. I know intially when we started our infertility treatment I would have never guessed we would've toughed it out for 9 long years. We'd attend Resolve meetings and listened to couples sharing their stories. Amazed at what others had gone through all the while thinking to ourselves we'll never go that far or that long. Of course we also knew we'd get pregnant. Wrong. Boy, have we grown over the years. I can say that when we stopped we did it without one regret. We knew without a shadow of a doubt we were done. The blessings that have been bestowed on our family since, we could have never imagined. Jenny thanks for sharing both your painful and happy memories. I too wish your family all the best as you continue to grow your family.

Congraulations and welcome baby Nala! We love pink!

I must add my thanks to Elizabeth and all those who are parenting these beautiful “rainbow” children for your thoughtful responses. It makes me very sad that we have to "talk it up" to get waiting parents to as it has been said "think out of the box" or as I might say " GET OUT OF YOUR COMFRORT ZONE" and consider parenting one of these precious children of AA decent. Sad that people actually think they are less desirable in one way or another, sad that these prospective parents are closing their hearts and doors to the best thing that could ever to happen to them. I know I might be offending someone and everyone thinks their reason is legitimate (and who am I to say it's not) but I as a parent of 3 smart, beautiful, loving (and the list could go on and on) AA/CC daughters who have blessed our lives beyond our wildest dreams I challenge you to really examine your heart and minds. Before our first daughter joined our family someone gave us a book titled HOPE by Isabell Monk. It touched my husband I in a profound way. I would like to share an excerpt from the book. First I will tell the book is about a young girl who loves to her visits with her Great Aunt. But during this visit it takes the special touch of her Aunt to heal a child hurt by words of ignorance and disrespect. "You have your mother's beautiful brown eyes. You have the noble shape of your fathers face. Your skin is the color of delicious things, like a perfect cup of cocoa, my special golden-fried chicken, or the apricot jam you helped me make last summer. Baby, when people like Violet look at you, they think you are made only of what they can see. But I know what it truly took to make Hope. It took the faith of your daddy's immigrant great, great, great, great-grandparents to be true to their dreams. It took the faith of your mama's enslaved great, great, great, great-grandparents to know that a better day was coming. It took the faith of your Grandpa Jack and Grandma Jane to stand up in the face of hatred, fear, and ignorance. It took the faith of your Grandpa Vince and Grandma Kate to teach others that knowledge is freedom and should be free. And most important was the faith of your very own mama and daddy to look forward to a future where you will be proud to be part of a race that is simply "human". So when someone asks, "My goodness, is the child mixed?" you can say in a clear voice "Yes, I am generations of faith 'mixed with lots of love! I AM HOPE!"" These children of AA decent have such a rich heritage please don't let all the negatives get in the way. Please have faith. PS Please forgive me if I have offended you. That is not the purpose of this post. Also I would be happy to answer any questions you might have. The proud mom to Micah, Maya and Hope

Congratulations to all of Abrazo's new families! May you continue to grow in love and respect for one another. We love Pink!

Congratulations and Welcome to your precious new son. We will continue to keep you and your birthfamily in our prayers! It's great to hear there is a new Abrazo baby coming home to Virginia.

Welcome Amy! I am also a lurker and haven't posted in along time. Mostly because I don't know my way around computers very well and really don't know how all this stuff works. Anyway, I felt moved today to respond because we are also a Virgnia family( recently returned after a 3 yr tour in AL). You are not alone. We are the blessed parents of 3 beautiful girls of which one is an Abrazobabe. Please keep the faith. I will tell you as heartbreaking as our journey was at times ( and it was ). We really feel that our family now is the one God intended us to have all along. We are so grateful to Abrazo for helping us and our daughters wonderful birthfamily with our journey. Happy Journey to you! By the way I'm sure there are other VA Abrazo families maybe we can all link up ( I think that would be great)! Kathy

I think everyone thus far has made great points. I say if you're ready now go for it! It can sometimes take longer than you might anticipate. Just getting everything in order to start a second adoption could take more time than expected. Orientation and updating your homestudy can be an example of two things that you might have to do on someone else's timetable. We started the adoption process again when our first was 1 and due to some "twists and turns" joyfully became parents again in July "01" when our daughter was almost 3 1/2. It was not the timing we originally had in mind but it all worked out perfectly in the end. So I guess what I'd add to eveyone else's supportive advice is don't be afraid of the journey, keep the faith and you will be richly blessed. Oh and by the way 10 weeks after our second beautiful daughter joined our family we were blessed with a third precious daughter (bio sibling to daughter #1) so yes raising 2 close in age can be done. It has been a been a busy year but the joy has been so worth it. Best Wishes! Proud Mom of Micah, Maya and Hope.

We want to send all our fellow wannababies friends our best wishes and congratulations on their new blessings. But most of all we want to thank all of you at Abrazo for all your hard work and efforts on our behalf. You have fufilled our most precious desire to become parents in such a delicate, hopeful and respectful manner. Thank you! Of course at the heart of this and certianly not last, Thank you to all the birthfamilies for your overwhelming love and courage. You will always be part of our lives!