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Sharon Stone On Finding Out She Was Going To Be A Parent The Day After She Lost A Child


I found out I was going to be a parent the day after I lost my child. It was 2000, and my then husband and I had had a series of devastating late-term miscarriages. On our final attempt to have a baby naturally, I had to go through painful surgery – and 36 hours of labour – to deliver a stillborn. It was on our way home afterwards, one of the darkest moments of my life, that I got a call from an adoption lawyer: he had a client with a baby boy due in a few weeks. Would I be his mother?

I felt as if God was throwing me a life raft. Six weeks later, I listened over the phone to my son Roan being born, in keeping with the terms of our closed adoption. From the moment I held him, I was in awe. I sat by his bassinet through the night just to watch him sleep. Like most first-time parents, I worried constantly, but there was no need. Babies speak a language all mothers are instinctively fluent in, whether or not a child is biologically related to them. I immediately knew the difference between his various cries and what it was he wanted from me.

Just as remarkable was how much being a mother taught me about myself. Every detail in my life became a little more magical just because I was sharing it with him. I remember lifting him up to a flower, and saying, “I cannot tell you how long I have waited for you to get here so that I could show you this.”

I’m now a single mother with three adopted sons, and it has been the great privilege of my life to raise them. When you adopt, you realise any child could be your child, any person could be your relative. After that you never see the world in the same way again. I’m connected to everyone on this planet. And that’s a miracle in and of itself.





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