NEW FEATURE
ERIC, MAT AND CONNOR, CALIFORNIA
We met in 2007. Mat is originally from Britain but we live in California. The whole adoption journey took about 2 years. We paused for a little bit to get married, and we eventually adopted Connor in a di~ erent state. His adoption was an open adoption: the birth parents picked who they wanted to take care of their child. We were selected by Connor’s birth mother who made the brave decision to put him up for adoption at 11 weeks. We lived in a hotel with her and her two kids for about a month before he was born, and we were there for his birth.