Years of infertility led me down the path I was meant to take
The following is excerpted with permission from Can’t Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood by Tarah Schwartz (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022).
I was kicking off my shoes as I checked the message on my phone. When I heard who it was, I froze. I pressed the play button again. I listened to the message a third time. Then I saved it.
Climbing the stairs two by two I found Enrico in his office. He is a translator and works with words. He loves them.
?Did you get the message"? I asked.
?I did,? he said. ?We have a lot to talk about.?
When we first began IVF treatments, I had also placed our names on a number of adoption waiting lists. I didn?t know if it would come to that, but it seemed like the smart thing to do. We had been told adoption could take years. Shockingly, by the time the call did come, three long years had passed. A Quebec adoption agency working with South Korea explained that our names were now at the top of the list, and they weren?t giving us much time to decide if we?d like to proceed. There are hundreds of families eager to take your place if you decline, they said. While we didn?t know what the process consisted of, we knew that at the end of it, we could be parents. ?Let?s go for a walk,? said my husband.
We walked through the trees with thick branches and shapely green leaves that draped over grassy fields in Lafontaine Park. Fat grey squirrels stopped us in our tracks with their beady eyes, demanding food.
?What do you think"? I asked ...
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