I didn’t get adoption until I had kids

I always admired people who adopted kids. But I didn’t think it was for me somehow. When my husband and I struggled with infertility, we decided that we wouldn’t go to extraordinary lengths to have children. No IVF or surrogacy for us.

We decided that if it wasn’t meant to happen, we would be childless and make that life work. I couldn’t picture adopting.

But then I did get pregnant with a little bit of help from a wonderful little pill called Clomid. Katherine was born in 1996, and I felt a love for her unlike any other in my life at the…