The woman at the center of this difficult story went through the shock of her life when, after an exhausting delivery, she learned she had given birth not to twins, but to triplets. Worn out in body and spirit, and facing what felt like an impossible situation, she made a heartbreaking decision and signed papers giving up her newborn daughters.
But a mother does not simply erase something like that. Before long, she regretted it deeply and tried to find a way to get her girls back. For months, young Vera had believed she was carrying two babies, because every prenatal checkup had pointed to twins.
Only later did the doctors explain what had happened: the third baby had been positioned in such a way that she was missed on the scans. When Vera finally came around after anesthesia, the medical staff gathered near her bed and carefully told her the news.
Vera, who had spent her whole pregnancy wondering how she could possibly raise even two children on her own, was stunned. She knew exactly what it meant. She was now a single mother with three newborns, because the babies’ father had walked out as soon as he heard she was pregnant.
She had no one to help her. Her relatives had long since distanced themselves, and she had never had a home of her own. Vera spent sleepless nights in her hospital room, crying, thinking, and turning the situation over in her mind until she finally signed the papers.
As soon as she was well enough to leave after surgery, she packed her few things and walked out of the maternity ward for good. The three baby girls she left behind, despite all the stress surrounding their birth, were full-term, healthy, and doing well by every medical measure.
The first little girl was adopted almost immediately, once the paperwork was complete, by a respected married couple who both worked as doctors at that very hospital. The other two sisters were first sent into foster care, but not for long. Within the first month, loving adoptive families were found for each of them…
