The stork has landed in Oldham County and it was a long flight to get here.

Piper Nicole Joseph is ten days old and her parents, Rhonda and David are still amazed because they had given up hope of having a child. "At that point, I was 45 years old and my eggs were not viable," says Rhonda. After a miscarriage and attempts at in vitro fertilization, their doctor suggested alternatives. They attended seminars on foreign adoption but were told they were too old. Then came a call from a friend, Lynn Waxman, in Baltimore, who had seen a TV news story.

"There was this amazing frozen embryo adoption program called Snowflakes," Rhonda says. But the center was on the west coast and the waiting list was long. Still, Rhonda asked her doctor to try a reproductive clinic and she got a stunning response.

"Just this morning we had a donor couple, who had just given birth to a little baby girl weeks earlier, call us with remaining embryos. They asked us to place them with an adoptive couple."

It took several months but the Josephs were able to legally adopt five embryos. One would die, but four were implanted in Rhonda. One of those is in her lap. "So uplifting, and such a relief, emotionally, to know that we had been fulfilled, that our dreams were now going to be possible," said Rhonda.

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