Northbrook's Gift of Adoption making families whole ? Fertility and ...

BY PAT KROCHMAL pkrochmal@pioneerlocal.com June 18, 2012 6:52PM

Michael Tews helps Sophia water the flowers in their front yard. | Alyssa Schueneman~Sun-Times Media

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Updated: June 18, 2012 8:05PM

Anastasia and Michael Tews would have done almost anything to have a child.

They already had done everything possible to become biological parents after seven years of fertility treatments.

But it was The Gift of Adoption, a non-profit organization headquartered in Northbrook, that put a fairy tale twist to their story.

We wanted a family, so we became foster parents and tried to adopt through the foster program, but that didnt work. Then, we went for a private adoption and that did work, said Anastasia, who lives in the Chicago neighborhood of Norwood Park.

However, at the time we found out about Sophias biological mother, we couldnt have afforded to adopt no way. I just couldnt say We have to pass on this baby! I would have done anything I had to, but the Gift of Adoption helped us.

Anastasia, who works part-time as a makeup artist, and Michael, a Chicago police officer, already had been working with Childrens Home and Aid Society to become licensed foster parents when they learned that a family members neighbor was pregnant and couldnt take care of her baby. She was 18, unmarried and an unemployed.

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Northbrook?s Gift of Adoption making families whole

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