#27: Everything Changes

Cocoon

Four and a half years ago, Jill stood on the sidewalk and watched as another family drove away with the little boy she had given birth to days before. While pregnant, she had been unemployed, depressed, and certain she could not care for a child the way he deserved to be cared for. But the experience did not quiet the yearning she had always felt to be a mom. If anything, it strengthened it.

At first Jill set aside the feelings, but time passed and while her circumstances changed, her feelings didn't. She soon had a job, a relationship, and a medication that stabilized her mental health—and she wanted to try again to be a mom.

And now, just a few years from that curbside goodbye, Jill's life has taken so many turns that you might think you had wandered into someone else's story.

Click here for the first part of Jill's story: I Could Bring Him to His Family.