waiting for court decision in Ukraine

Hi there, I’ve read so much happy and not very happy adoption stories here and finally I have some time to share my own story with you. In fact, my history goes back ten years ago when I met my future husband. Was it love at first sight? Yes. It was followed with months of discovering each other, adjusting to each other, adapting to each other’s character. It wasn’t easy, I must admit. Anyway, we finally realized that despites of all the flaws we want to be together and to make up a family. The only thing we were sure from the very beginning is that we want to have children. However, years passed and nothing happened. People told that is ok and we should keep on trying. We tried. And nothing happened. Some people told me that perhaps my husband is “not good enough” for making a baby. This was so abusive to hear even for me (of course, I never dared to tell this to him). We both seemed to be healthy people, so we didn’t know what the reason is. In more than two years of infertility, we finally referred to fertility specialist. After numerous checkups, we had the diagnosis. Please, let me not to go much into details, because this issue is not very pleasant for me to talk about. They advised us to try ICSI and IVF. Five attempts were unsuccessful and only one was successful which in ten weeks ended up in miscarriage. The doctors just made a helpless gesture. It was a hell time for my family. We were suggested surrogacy, however the price of the program was unreachable for us. At this point, we took a time out. We both dove into work, moved to a new house, got a big dog that we were long dreaming about. It seemed that we were slightly getting used to being childless. Once I saw a TV program about adopting from Easter European countries. The video showed the stories of a few children who lived in Russian “children homes” as they call it. These kids were orphans or abandoned and then successfully adopted by European families. My heart squeezed at that moment. And from that very moment my life turned upside down. Together with my dh we decided that we want to adopt. Almost two years of inquiry, searching, applying, checkups and finally we met our baby! This is a very very very beautiful young lady from Ukraine named Dina. The court hearing will be held in the end of February. Man, are we excited? We’re waiting forward to getting the court’s decision and finally brining our child home. I just want to wish lots of good luck to all those people that are willing to adopt. We meet a lot of obstacles on our way, but hopefully let all of us be blessed of giving our love and care to the one who needs it.