Family life

Three journeys, three very different children

Paul and Joshua with their three children at home

Our three came to us across a decade and three separate programs. What I learned as a parent, not a consultant, is the part I keep coming back to.

Our three came to us across a decade and three separate programs. What I learned as a parent, not a consultant, is the part I keep coming back to.

Every journey was different — different country, different clinic, different set of unknowns. What stayed constant was how much the human side of the process mattered more than the paperwork, even when the paperwork was the thing that kept me awake.

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