This is going to be long but I can't put it on Facebook since people will know who I'm talking about.
So.... here we go!!
Wife and I are adopting, privately, within the family. Adoption lawyer asks birth mom and grandma which hospital they're going to go to so she can prepare them and the appropriate paperwork. Well, birth mom has a coughing fit last Thursday morning (smoker) that ends up breaking her water a full month early from the due date and guess what... they go to the closest hospital (which, by the way, is a BIRTHING hospital), which is NOT the hospital they told the adoption lawyer.
Adoption lawyer had just left town for vacation to Canada via Chicago. Baby is born Thursday evening, just over five pounds, little bit of jaundice but no other health concerns. YAY!! Hospital won't accept the paperwork that lawyer provided because it has the wrong hospital name AND doesn't have my wife and I's Social Security Numbers on them. I CAN WRITE THAT ON THERE!! They won't allow it. Has to come from the lawyer in a fax. Who faxes anymore? This is 2019!!
Hospital tells birth mom she can discharge/leave Friday evening, but that if she does, it'll be considered abandonment. Baby has to stay until Sunday due to low weight. So birth mom is stuck at the hospital and encouraged to feed the baby, which is only making it harder on her emotionally. Why didn't they go to the hospital they told the lawyer they were going to go to?!?! Saturday, we get everything worked out by the afternoon so birth mom can go home and -I- can stay at the hospital. Why me and not my wife? Because the lawyer fat-fingered my wife's social on the paperwork and the hospital won't accept it for her.
So yup, two dudes, partying it up on a Saturday night in the maternity ward. Yes, I have my own room with the brand new baby boy. My Mom thought this was hilarious that I had to stay the night in the hospital, in the hospital bed, in my own room, in the maternity ward, post partum. I know this is 2019 but.... :/
Sunday morning, lawyer fixes the ONE DIGIT that was off on the paperwork, but, the hospital tells us that BOTH my wife AND I have to be there to discharge the baby. So they hold us "hostage" until after noon even though everything was fine at 9 AM that morning.

So we leave the hospital with the newborn (and my 4.5 month old, who, by the way, is THREE TIMES the weight of his soon to be baby brother; can you say Irish Twins???). Now the issue still remains of signing the adoption paperwork with a stand-in lawyer, who, by the way, has been unreachable this whole time. Now we need to get a new stand-in. Finally got one. Only over $300/hour... I think $325 to be exact. And yes, he charges for travel time.
We're set-up for tomorrow at 11AM which is when we will officially have child number 9. Eight of which my wife gave birth to. We are EXCITED!!! SUPER EXCITED!!! Still though, the first world problems that have been presented have been... an irritation. Did you know that even if you're going to adopt within family relations, you STILL need a lawyer? I live in a different State so we needed TWO lawyers... Blah!! EXPENSIVE!!
This isn't everything, but it is most. Wife and I drove 25 hours straight to get here, dropped everything, called Grandma to watch the littles and Poof!! Gone. Fifteen passenger van (which I took four seats out of because I don't NEED 15) on the road with a 4.5 month old, on our way to pick up a newborn.

You talk about stories and adventures!!!
