Two weeks after this couple adopted triplets, a doctor gave them another great news
Sarah and Andy Justice from Tulsa, Oklahoma, struggled to conceive.
They went to a fertility expert to consider the feasibility of in-vitro fertilization, but they were told that it would cost them up to US$60,000 and that they would still land only a 10 percent chance of getting pregnant.
Since the odds were against them, they started to look into the possibility of adopting a baby.
They wanted to adopt a newborn, and so, the process they had to undertake was more challenging. They needed to talk to birth mothers, who would finally decide whether they wanted to give their baby up to the said family. In fact, Sarah and Andy had approached two mothers who initially accepted them as adoptive parents but later changed their minds.
Eventually, they got lucky—a birthing mother decided to trust them with her child. When Sarah took the mother for an ultrasound, the doctor said that he saw not one, but three babies! “Wow! This is great. It’s everything we wanted,” the couple told Tulsa World.
The three babies were born two months before the due date. They named them Joel, Hannah, and Elizabeth. And during these two months that the babies were in the NICU, Sarah was due for her own medical checkup—the couple got a surprise of their lives. Sarah was pregnant, and not just with one baby, but twins! She gave birth to Abigail and Andrew in December 2013.
The couple didn’t want to give up the triplets and officials told them they could still get all three if they didn’t back out, Tulsa World reported.
Now, their life revolves around their five kids, with lots of help from their family and their church. They get about three hours of sleep each night, though not necessarily in a row, Andy noted.
