ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) ?After packing their bags, Nicole Brueck and her husband, Aaron, waited for the phone call that they hoped would bring them closer to their dream.

For nearly a year, the Rochester couple had been working to adopt a child from Guatemala. And in preparing for that event, they had spent hours learning about the country’s culture and history, taking lessons in Spanish and preparing a home for the child they had yet to meet. They had also spent $10,000.

But when the call came, it brought not the news that they had been waiting for, but grief and despair. The country had shutdown its adoption program. The Brueck’s money, hopes and plans of nearly a year in the making had been dashed virtually in an instant.

Yet despite the emotional devastation the news brought her — “I was literally a pile, just a lump on my floor for two days” — Nicole wasn’t done in her efforts to adopt a child internationally. She and her husband would try again.

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Tags : adoption, infertility
Categories : Conception