Two three’s are five

While the social stigma around adoption may still be prevalent, it is still one of the most common ways of starting a family, especially with couples facing infertility. However, one such couple, Mumbai-based Sunita Chand and her husband Sahil, maintain that adoption was not an ‘option’, but rather the only way to go. After a three year long and winding journey, fate had not one, not two, but three new additions waiting for them at the end of the line. Read on as Sunita tells us about making room in her heart for her sons, Samuel, six, David, four, and Isaac, two.

“I was eight, when I told my mother that I will adopt a child some day. She assumed that because I attended a convent school and read about Mother Teresa, that I was caught in a momentary emotion. But as I grew in age, the conviction of adopting a child became engrained. Years later, when I met the love of my life Sahil, now my husband, we used to have brief discussions on adoption. To my surprise when I told him that I wanted to adopt a child after we get married, he replied, “We will, for sure.” Once, on my birthday, he took me to an orphanage. I saw him playing with the kids and I knew what he did was not to impress me, but he did it for us—there were some unspoken desires and words within our hearts, and in-spite of being poles apart, we knew we shared similar convictions in many areas of our lives.

“We got married pretty young, and never thought about children—we were young and enjoying our newly wedded life. After a couple of months, we noticed that inspite of having unprotected sex, I never conceived, so we both took ourselves to get tested. After a couple of tests, I was diagnosed with unexplained infertility. We had other options for conception, but both of us did not consider those options, because we weren’t hell-bent on