thank you and congrats on your adoptive parent journey i found the process to be exciting, frustrating, nitpicky, panic inducing and amazing. when the adoption assistants walked thru that door carrying our girl..whoa nelly...i only recall feeling that kind of joy at the birth of my son. for me it was exactly the same.... only without the stretch marks and with a really long flight.
My experience was quite similar except my daughter's birth grandmother was carrying her with a nurse to one side and a lawyer to the other. She placed her in my arms and with tears streaming down her cheeks asked me to lover her as my own. We both embraced and I gave her the reassurance that she would always be loved and respected. My daughter is now 23 years old! How fast the years slip away.