by Carolyn Robertson posted in Pregnancy

Adoption is emotional and complicated, selfless and humbling, and all of that and more is captured in the video you are about to see.
The 22-minute documentary was created by The Archibald Project, an orphan care advocacy nonprofit based in Austin, Texas. It follows a birth mother and an adoptive couple as they move through the days immediately following the baby's birth. Texas, like many states, has a 48-hour waiting period before a child can be legally placed for adoption. Those hours are wrought with tension and anxiety, but also filled with hope and gratitude.
The video opens at the hospital, where Ally and Ryan are spending their first moments with the baby they hope to call their son. Ally holds the boy, who they plan to call Everett, against her chest, his tiny fingers wrapped around hers. "We just feel honored, and in the same way that we choose this child we feel like she's chosen us, and that is incredible," Ally says of Dominique, the birth mother. "He is still hers right now...how can we think of her, how can we care for her and put her needs before ours" If our only time with him is here in the hospital, these 48 hours, we want to know that we loved him as faithfully and as best as we could for the time that we had with him."
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They bring Everett back to Dominique's room. She is young and scared, but also confident that she is making the right decision in placing her baby up for a...