ALEX’S ADOPTION STORY
Adventures In Russia By The Cradle Staff “When we first saw Alex’s picture, we knew he was our son,” said Joan Romer. In fact, the baby photos of her husband Bob looked so similar to 18-month old Alex that they brought them to court in Russia. When the judge saw them, she called others in […]
ELENA’S ADOPTION STORY – MOM AND DAUGHTER, BOTH ADOPTED FROM THE CRADLE
Published July 2011 By The Cradle Staff When Sarah Borland Bellini was a child, one of her school projects was to make a journal about her family and her dreams for the future. In one of those books she wrote, “When I grow up I’m going to be a golf pro and adopt three children.” […]
A FAMILY FOR BABY SOFIA
Published September 2012 By Shelbie Bostedt, Intern For Tammi and Marc Kotarski, meeting Sofia was love at first sight. Baby Sofia was born on April 17 with Down syndrome and a heart defect. At one month she had cardiac surgery, and on May 28 she was discharged from the hospital to a foster family because […]
ALENA’S ADOPTION STORY
Our Amazing Trip to Russia by John and Kym Conis John and Kim adopted their daughter in January 2004 Published July 2004 To retell our Russian experience, allow me paint a few images: little wooden “cottages” adorned with hand-painted window panes; a frozen lake dotted with ice fisherman as far as the eye can discern; […]
AND BABIES MAKE FOUR!
Published November 2007 By The Cradle Staff Brooke and James are among a proud group of Chicagoland families who completed a Sayers Center adoption recently. They met through a local running club and married in 2004. Even before they were married, Brooke and James discussed the possibility of forming a family through adoption. They sought […]
LESSONS FROM NINA
Published October 2012 By The Cradle Staff When Becky and Rich Carter brought six-week-old Nina home from The Cradle in the spring of 2009, they were “surrounded by the newness of it all,” Becky recalls. As first-time parents, they were more focused on attending to the needs of their infant daughter than mulling over the […]
