00:00This mom never thought she'd hold another child she could call her own.
00:04Ann's first son was born by an emergency C-section at just 30 weeks
00:09because doctors had to save her from kidney failure.
00:12And they said having more kids was out of the picture.
00:16That was hard for me to hear because I'm one of four kids
00:20and I always wanted a big family for myself.
00:22So it's like the whole, that whole decision always kind of felt taken away from me.
00:31But she and her husband Taylor didn't want to give up on their big family dreams.
00:37I think we both just had this mindset that we didn't know how we were going to have more kids
00:41but we knew that we were going to have one.
00:43And we explored other avenues doing that.
00:46One of those avenues was adoption.
00:50I didn't know what it was going to take to get through the adoption process
00:54or the correct way to adopt.
00:57And I didn't know how to do it.
00:59I didn't know what it looked like to be an adoptive parent.
01:02But all those worries disappeared when they finally met baby Isaiah.
01:11Hi guys.
01:12Hey.
01:13Would you guys like to meet your new baby?
01:16Here.
01:19Careful. He's super cute.
01:20Aw.
01:23Aw.
01:25Hi.
01:27Aw.
01:32Oh my gosh.
01:34Hello.
01:36You can't tell?
01:38How big, how big was he?
01:39He's 7'14".
01:41Aw.
01:437'14".
01:45Hey buddy! Oh, look at those eyes!
01:50It was one of the best moments of my life.
01:55Oh my gosh, he's perfect! He's so cute! He's so cute!
02:01Look at that face!
02:07Oh, I love you!
02:11It's kind of like what I imagined walking on water to be like
02:15because we had been living through these tiny little miracles to get to this
02:21point in the process and to meet this little boy
02:24and we've been praying over this mom and this family
02:28and it was like getting out of the boat and stepping on the water
02:32and it was overwhelming and ultimately the best decision I've ever
02:36made. And their family grew even bigger than
02:42they expected because we had a completely beautiful
02:47scenario because my son's birth mom loves him so much.
02:51He still keeps in touch with us. We still
02:55send updates. In the beginning, that to me felt like I was going to be
02:59co-parenting with a stranger which sounds crazy
03:04but it's not like that at all. She is family now.
03:08Later on, the family welcomed two foster children too
03:12and they told us it all changed their lives
03:15in a more beautiful way than they could have ever
03:19imagined. I never thought I was going to choose adoption but it was kidney
03:23failure ultimately that led us down that road and while I
03:28thought kidney failure to be this burden you
03:33know that it was awful to go through and the
03:35adoption experience was hard to go through
03:38but meeting your kid and having your baby you know you just do
03:43anything for your kids and um and I would do it all over again
03:47and I would and I'd again and again for all of them.
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