Elliot and I were recently foster parents to a newborn baby girl-- I'll call her "Yasmin." Her birth mom had planned a private adoption for her, but it was going to take a couple of days to get paperwork together and so the adoption agency needed to put Yasmin in a foster home temporarily. Elliot and I were happy to help out.
Yasmin had been born just two days earlier. Elliot, Elise, and I picked Yasmin up from the hospital. What a strange experience, going back to the same hospital that Elise had been born at and bringing home another newborn baby!
The next few days were really interesting-- we got to see Yasmin's birth parents, as they wanted an opportunity to say goodbye to her, and we got to meet Yasmin's new parents when we brought her to the adoption agency to be united with her forever family. Fostering Yasmin was a special opportunity for us to see several different sides of the private adoption process. It was really wonderful to be a part of it all.
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