The military doctor performed the transfer at the tail end of Matt’s deployment to Baghdad.

Embryo adoption has been such a gift to us and I am so thankful to our genetic family for sharing the ultimate gift of life with us.

I don’t think of her as not genetically related to us. Having given birth to her, I don’t even think about that.

I instantly felt at peace with their friendliness and resourcefulness.

We just couldn’t believe, after all these years, we were going to be parents. This was the answer to not only years of individual, but collective prayers.

We had completed all the arrangements to simultaneously adopt two embryos from two different families...