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| We are parents of three healthy birth children of our own. Having room in our home and in our hearts, we considered adding another by adoption. But with three of our own, the only possibility was to adopt a child who had special needs. And so, after much prayer and thinking, our decision was to go ahead; and trusting God, we applied to adopt a high-risk infant. We waited almost two years and then one day received a call from the placement agency. A baby girl was soon to be born, at high risk of major problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Her mother was a seventeen-year-old who drank heavily. We looked up the symptoms. They could include low birth weight, heart defects, malformations of the face, small head, learning disabilities, mental retardation - but we went ahead. The little girl was born, and she had seizures after her birth. She appeared to be deaf. We knew there could be other problems that could surface later; only time would tell. The mother had had a very difficult life, but it was clear that she had enough love for her unborn child, and enough support from her own mother, to carry the baby to term, even though we heard that the father had wanted her to have an abortion. We took the little girl. We thank the Lord every day that her mother chose life - a choice braver than abortion. And we are happy to say that none of the complications that we were warned about materialized. We've been blessed with a healthy, beautiful little girl who is now three years old.
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