{"id":68301,"date":"2017-11-27T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/?p=68301"},"modified":"2023-03-05T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T12:42:17","slug":"natalie-brookshire-adoption-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/natalie-brookshire-adoption-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Play: Natalie Brookshire On Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFzZf_xmR2o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video by <a href=\"http:\/\/vanessamona.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanessa Mona Hellmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the path to motherhood is swift for some, for others it is wrought with frustration and pain. Such is the case for <a href=\"http:\/\/nataliebowendesigns.com\/#weddings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalie Bowen Brookshire<\/a>, a San Francisco-based floral designer (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/third-anniversary-party-pictures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother collaborator<\/a>) who started trying to conceive six years ago, only to encounter a series of heartbreaking miscarriages and failed IUIs and IVF. Luckily, there is a bright, shining rainbow at the end of her story. Within under a year of deciding to adopt, Natalie and her husband became proud parents to a little girl named Friday, who is now 1. Here, she shares her story with us, along with some advice for women going through a similar journey.  <\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more? Stay tuned for Natalie&#8217;s full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/tag\/mothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Stories<\/a> profile later this week. In the meantime, check out our other features on mothers who adopted\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/open-adoption-myka-haddad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myka Haddad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/adoption-maria-confer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Confer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/international-adoption-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicky Cronk<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/foster-to-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristen Philipkoski<\/a>\u2014as well as our piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/helping-a-friend-through-infertility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helping a Friend Through Infertility<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video by Vanessa Mona Hellmann While the path to motherhood is swift for some, for others it is wrought with frustration and pain. Such is the case for Natalie Bowen Brookshire, a San Francisco-based floral designer (and Mother collaborator) who started trying to conceive six years ago, only to encounter a series of heartbreaking miscarriages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116,119,71,7,57],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149903,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68301\/revisions\/149903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}