{"id":162223,"date":"2017-02-13T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=162223"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:26:48","slug":"though-baby-ava-expected-die-adoptive-parents-loved-fully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/though-baby-ava-expected-die-adoptive-parents-loved-fully\/","title":{"rendered":"Though Baby Ava was expected to die, adoptive parents loved her fully"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Allison and Josh Lewis were newly married, they planned on having no more than three children. But as life often goes, there were\u00a0other plans for the couple. As the years went by, they found themselves parents to four biological children and one adopted child. In November of 2015, thinking their family was complete, they received an unexpected call from a friend who knew of a woman who was pregnant and looking for a family to adopt her baby. Allison and Josh were happy to welcome another baby into their family, but life had even more in store.<\/p>\n

On the long drive to the hospital to see their new child shortly after his or her birth, they received a shocking phone call.<\/p>\n

“Our phone rang with news from our adoption attorney,” explained Allison in a video interview<\/a>. “She wanted to know if Josh had both hands on the steering wheel because she had some news to share with us — that there were actually two babies and not one.”<\/p>\n

The excitement from that news was wiped away about an hour later when the phone rang again. They learned that one of the twins was not expected to survive birth. Allison said they went from “overwhelmed and elated to overwhelmed and just crushed over the thought that she wouldn’t be alive when we got there.”<\/p>\n

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