5 Heartwarming Photos of Parents and Children Meeting for the First Time

For international adoptions, you usually receive pictures of your child prior to the adoption, but to actually meet them for the first time will be a heart stopping moment. It will be overwhelming and breathtaking. Original image found here.

The staff or workers where your child was staying before the adoption worked hard to care for them in the best possible environment they could provide. It is an important learning tool for you to see where and how they were living before coming home with you. Original image found here.

Seeing the smile for the first time makes all the waiting, the frustration, the excessive paperwork worth it. There is nothing like a baby’s smile to fill your heart. I still remember the first time we saw our daughter smile. It was almost as powerful as holding her for the first time. Original image found here.

In many domestic adoptions, you may have the opportunity to be at the hospital when the baby is born. In international adoptions, you will have a once in a life in a lifetime experience seeing and holding your child for the first time. None of it will feel real until you are able to hold that baby/child and take her home. Original image found here.