{"id":23210,"date":"2025-12-09T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23210"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:41:54","slug":"we-adopted-a-silent-6-year-old-girl-six-months-later-she-said-my-mom-is-alive-and-she-lives-in-the-house-across-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23210","title":{"rendered":"We Adopted a Silent 6-Year-Old Girl \u2014 Six Months Later, She Said, &#8216;My Mom Is Alive and She Lives in the House Across the Street!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After years of infertility, Megan and Alex finally adopt a silent six-year-old girl. Just as their new life begins to settle, a single sentence from their daughter unravels everything they thought they knew\u2026<br>AdvertisementWhen you&#8217;ve spent ten years trying to have a child, you start to think that the universe is punishing you for something you can&#8217;t name.I don&#8217;t know how many appointments we went to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I lost count after the fifth clinic and after the seventh specialist who said we should &#8220;manage expectations.&#8221; They always used such careful language, as though avoiding the word no would soften the blow.I had memorized the shape of waiting rooms. I could list side effects of medication like someone reading a grocery list. My husband, Alex, remained calm through all of it, even when I wasn&#8217;t. He held my hand during procedures and constantly whispered things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of infertility, Megan and Alex finally adopt a silent six-year-old girl. Just as their new life begins to settle, a single sentence from their daughter&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":349,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23212,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions\/23212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}