After an infertility journey and fixing up a new house, this soon-to-be mom entered the biggest struggle of her life. Her new life's headline read, 'Husband Leaves Pregnant Wife.' See what her community did to bless her.
"Did someone open a card under his name? The next day, the day I called that hotel room and heard his voice, his voice 1,000 miles away, and then heard her voice in the background, that was the day I broke."
"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
At just 3 pounds, the baby who is now named Samuel Tyler was so small he fit in a shoebox. And that's the where his birth mother put him as a makeshift cradle when she left him at a local firehouse with a note explaining she couldn't care for him.
Jenna and Tim Riccio, two teachers at a Connecticut elementary school welcomed one of their students into their forever family through adoption late last year.