Success Stories
“My wife and I were in our mid thirties when we married on Valentines Day and we hoped to start our family right away.  Seven years later we were at our local hospital to share in the birth of our son Taylor.  His birth mother placed him in our arms as we left the hospital together. The openness in our adoption with his birth mother began 3 months before his birth and continues now 3 and 1/2 years later. We enjoy our visits with her very much.

Our daughter Kara joined our family under very different circumstances as I traveled 17,000 miles to China for 2 weeks (during the middle of corn harvest) to adopt her at 9 months of age. As a waiting couple, we had no idea how our children would join our family; However, now it feels like they have always been a part of our family.”

Dave and Glenda

“When we decided to pursue adoption and shared our desire with our family and friends we could not believe how many people told us they were parents of adoptive children or knew someone who had adopted from NCHS.  We just knew in our hearts this was where we needed to be.

Our journey though our case study was very positive.  Sometimes it felt like it was taking forever but looking back, NCHS did a great job preparing us as a couple to be parents.  We have two wonderful children who are well adjusted, happy and the most loving children we could have ever hoped for.”

David and Lisa

“We knew even before we were married that, due to infertility, our family would be formed through adoption.  When we felt that we were ready to make that first move, through the recommendation of a friend, we called the Nebraska Children’s Home.  We knew very little about adoption and almost nothing about open adoption.  We were curious, excited and terrified all at the same time.  The Children’s Home invited us to an information meeting and we eagerly attended.  The staff at this meeting thoroughly answered the many questions we asked.  They were friendly and professional and made us feel at ease.  When we left this meeting, we knew that this was the place where our adoption journey would begin. We felt that they were not just an adoption agency but an organization committed to serving the needs of children.

During the next few months, while we were completing our home study, we were encouraged to read and gather information about adoption issues.  We read everything we could find about various adoption subjects.  We became very excited about the prospect of open adoption and the more we learned, the more we wanted to share this information with our friends and family.  We were assigned a caseworker to oversee our home study.  He was always willing to answer questions, listen to concerns and reassure us when needed.  He made the home study process flow easily.  We finally began what we knew would be the most difficult part:  the waiting.  We attended a support group for waiting couples every month at the Children’s Home.  We met people through these meetings that were experiencing the same excitement and anticipation that we were.  We found comfort in their friendship and their company.

We finally received the call we had been waiting for.  A couple had chosen our profile and wanted to meet us.  Both the caseworker for the birthparents and our caseworker shared in our excitement.  They understood that we were nervous and helped us to prepare for the first meeting.  That first meeting went extremely well and we brought our daughter home ten days later.  We have a very open relationship with her birthparents and we are so grateful for that.  They visit in our home once or twice a month and have become an important part of our lives and an extension of our family.  Parenthood is everything we thought it would be and so much more.  We have a beautiful daughter and we love her more than we ever imagined possible.  The couples that we met through the support group have become our best friends.  We still meet regularly and look forward to watching our children grow up together.  We are so proud to be a part of the Nebraska Children’s Home “family”.  Our journey to adopt a child has brought us great friends, wonderful birthparents, a beautiful daughter and a life-long relationship with an organization that has shown that they care deeply about all of us.  We couldn’t have asked for a happier ending.”