After 3 Boys, We Gave Up Our Dream of a Daughter—Then My Husband Called Me to the Hospital and Said, “There’s a Baby Here”

“For tonight, the baby remains in the hospital.

You are not being asked to decide her entire future in one conversation.”

That helped.

More than she could have known.

I asked:

“What happens if we say yes now?”

“We begin evaluating you as emergency kinship caregivers.”

“And if we change our minds before she is discharged?”