Woman forced to give up on adopted baby girl after birth parents changed their minds

This is an adoption story that might just stay with you for a very long time.

A woman has shared her heartbreaking story of adopting a baby girl only to lose her in a few days because her birth parents had a change of mind.

Sarah Howell, a registered nurse by profession, had already endured the biggest heartache of her life when doctors told her she had just a 1% chance of conceiving naturally. But the inability to bear a child did not deter her spirits of becoming a parent someday.

After having approached an adoption agency with her husband, Sarah was delighted to have matched a newborn. The joy for the family was overwhelming because Sarah had miraculously fallen pregnant at the same time.

But just five days after they did all the adopted the baby from the hospital and took her home, the child's birth parents came calling and said they had changed their mind.

That obviously meant Sarah had to give the child back to her birth parents, which she did.

Sarah was in a very bad mental state after returning the child to the birth parents. She says her pain was so deep, she even feared a miscarriage of her own child.

"It felt like an actual death to us because we knew we would likely never see her again," she was quoted as saying by Metro.co.uk.

Thankfully, she is now in a much better mental space after having given birth to her son Noah Howell. Since then, Sarah and her husband have also adopted one-year-old Levi and fostered another two-month-old boy.

When asked about the parents who took back their daughter, Sarah said she has no ill feelings towards them.

"We do not hold anything against her birth parents. If we could, we would tell them how much we love them, and how lucky baby girl is to have them as parents," said Sarah

Motherhood and pregnancy were not easy for Sarah. The couple tried to get pregnant for three years, with Sarah undergoing multiple surgeries.

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