The birth mom is just 18 years old so she came to the meeting with her parents. We weren't nervous at all, but that was probably because we didn't know what to expect. The meeting really turned out great. Jamie and I were very excited after the meeting and we felt a really good connection with the birth mom and her parents. Now we just had to wait to see if we would be officially chosen.
Yesterday we got a call from our social worker with the good news. The birth mom had selected us!!! She is do on January 10th, so in about 2 1/2 weeks Jamie and I will hopefully be proud parents of a new baby girl. The birth mother had asked us if we would allow her to give the baby a middle name. Jamie and I had two names already picked for a baby girl, but we were also aware that the birth mother may make this request and we were happy to ablige her. The name she requested was Nora. We tried what seemed like a hundred different names and nothing "worked" with Nora as the middle name. So then we thought maybe it would be easier to put Nora as the first name and come up with a new middle name. After much trial and error we (and by we I mean "me") came up with a name that we both liked... Nora Noelle. We liked it for 2 reasons. One, it honored the birth mom by naming the child Nora. And two, we thought the name Noelle was appropriate since we found out this great news 3 days before Christmas.
