Episode 1: A diagnosis, and a decision

Yvonne realizes she should have sought answers sooner about why she wasn't getting pregnant. In the beginning, though, she was prioritizing her career, and research she read online said it could take time. When she finally saw a specialist, her diagnosis was scary. Months of tests and procedures still couldn't guarantee a safe pregnancy and healthy child. Yvonne and her husband considered adoption. But their conscience kept pulling them toward foster parenting. They had an empty room, and there were plenty of children in their own city who needed one.


Yvonne's story is also being told in words, pictures and video.

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Reporter Yvonne Wenger’s series, “The Wait,” began with 73 pages of journal entries that documented her days as a new foster mother - and her attempts to make sense of the moral dilemmas she navigated over two years of learning to love, and to let go. By digging into her own medical history and struggle to have a child, Wenger opens up the complicated world of foster care and takes listeners on the journey of how she became a mother.

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