Speaker 1: She was screaming, saying, there's blood all over the car.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, the baby's coming. I
Speaker 1: was like trying to talk her through it.
Speaker 2: Just breathe, just take deep breaths. Can you feel the
Speaker 2: baby's head.
Speaker 3: I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal, a show about
Speaker 3: the people we trust the most and the deceptions that
Speaker 3: change everything. Here at Betrayal, we've received hundreds of emails
Speaker 3: messages from listeners telling us their own shocking stories of deception,
Speaker 3: and we knew we had to find a way to
Speaker 3: share them. So every Thursday, we'll be bringing you new
Speaker 3: stories of resilience in the face of devastating betrayal. Some
Speaker 3: stories will be contained to one episode and others will
Speaker 3: be least in two parts. Besides hearing from listeners, our
Speaker 3: team has been researching and reading about some of the
Speaker 3: most unbelievable deceptions and betrayals from across the world, not
Speaker 3: just romantic betrayals, but familial and financial ones, and in
Speaker 3: this story, it's somewhere in between. In the process of
Speaker 3: adopting a baby, Matt and Laura Trait were pulled into
Speaker 3: a twilight zone of deception and fraud.
Speaker 4: Something switched in US, and we immediately went into attack mode, like,
Speaker 4: we can't let someone get away with this, and so
Speaker 4: we started immediately making phone calls to the Sheriff's department
Speaker 4: to I mean, anybody that would.
Speaker 1: Listen, and I remember the sheriff saying, well, it's not
Speaker 1: a crime to hurt someone's feelings.
Speaker 3: This is Laura Trait and her husband, Matt. Matt and
Speaker 3: Laura met in two thousand and five when they were
Speaker 3: both in graduate school to become teachers. He was standing
Speaker 3: in line with his classmate when he first met Laura.
Speaker 4: She inserted herself into our conversation with my classmate and
Speaker 4: was like, Oh, are you in the teaching program. I'm
Speaker 4: in the teaching program too. We talked for a little
Speaker 4: bit and went back to class. My other friend I
Speaker 4: was with was like, Oh, she's really into you. I said, oh, no,
Speaker 4: she's not. Like she's way out of my league. There's
Speaker 4: no way she was into me.
Speaker 3: Matt's friend was right.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds so cliche, but when I saw
Speaker 1: Matt around campus, I just kind of knew he had
Speaker 1: just the kind of smile and kind eyes. So I
Speaker 1: basically worked up the courage that night to say hello.
Speaker 3: Laura invited him to her birthday dinner. He showed up
Speaker 3: with flowers.
Speaker 4: That was kind of our first date.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it worked out for me.
Speaker 1: We're pretty much stuck at the hips, like right from
Speaker 1: the start.
Speaker 2: It just kind of clicked.
Speaker 3: They dated for two years, and over that time, their
Speaker 3: initial attraction grew into a deep connection. This is what
Speaker 3: Matt says he loves about Laura.
Speaker 4: What drew me to Laura when I first met her
Speaker 4: were her eyes and her smile. I could tell that
Speaker 4: she was just a kind person. Little did I know
Speaker 4: just how amazingly kind and generous that she is. She
Speaker 4: is one of the most selfless human beings that I've
Speaker 4: ever met.
Speaker 2: Thanks Ma, love.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's saying all the things that I wanted
Speaker 1: to say about him.
Speaker 3: And this is what she loves about Matt.
Speaker 1: When I saw Matt around campus, I could just tell
Speaker 1: from looking at him that he's just He has such
Speaker 1: a kind face and eyes and smile, and I just
Speaker 1: was drawn to that. It was true that he is
Speaker 1: the kindest man I've literally ever met.
Speaker 4: So he gota taught me.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh God, getting emotional already.
Speaker 3: After they graduated, the couple started talking about the future together,
Speaker 3: everything from marriage to having kids.
Speaker 1: I was raised in such a big family that I
Speaker 1: just always wanted a family. I always wanted more than
Speaker 1: one child. That was like my biggest dream in life.
Speaker 3: Matt felt the same way. He loved kids and wanted
Speaker 3: a family with Laura.
Speaker 4: It's just something we both agreed on. Right from the start.
Speaker 3: They knew they'd have to make sacrifices to have the
Speaker 3: big family they dreamed of.
Speaker 1: We both were becoming teachers, and I mean the idea
Speaker 1: was to just make a difference in people's lives. We
Speaker 1: were never into material things. We were never into like
Speaker 1: name brands or anything like that. We were just more
Speaker 1: focused on having a family together and growing old together,
Speaker 1: like in simple ways.
Speaker 3: Laura and Matt got married at thirty one, and right
Speaker 3: away they started trying to build their family.
Speaker 1: We started trying right away, and it's really disheartening when
Speaker 1: you're trying and it's not working.
Speaker 2: So it became like this huge project, which is sad
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even if we weren't in the mood or whatever,
Speaker 1: we'd be like, okay, well I'm ovulating, so we need
Speaker 1: to try.
Speaker 2: And it just wasn't working.
Speaker 4: You know, you get to a certain point in the process.
Speaker 4: Also where you know it definitely affects you mentally, the struggle,
Speaker 4: you know, something that comes so easy for some people.
Speaker 3: After a year with no luck, their doctors ordered a
Speaker 3: series of tests. The trades learned they both have medical
Speaker 3: conditions that make it difficult to conceive, so their doctors
Speaker 3: recommended IVF, But the biggest obstacle was financial. One round
Speaker 3: of IVF is expensive.
Speaker 4: The cost per cycle is just staggering.
Speaker 1: This was in two thousand and nine. It was probably
Speaker 1: between twenty to thirty thousand dollars. But to us, there
Speaker 1: is nothing more worth the money. Yeah, and I remember
Speaker 1: like writing down notes and being ready, like to have
Speaker 1: a meeting with Mad's parents to ask them for help.
Speaker 1: We had to lay out the plan, lay out the prices.
Speaker 1: They want to know all the details and why it
Speaker 1: was costing this much. But we really had to go
Speaker 1: to family and advocate for ourselves and be like, please help,
Speaker 1: but we really want to have a family.
Speaker 3: Their families agreed to help financially, and the couple started
Speaker 3: their first IVF cycle.
Speaker 1: The first one wasn't successful at all, but we weren't
Speaker 1: ready to give up, so we tried again. Within the
Speaker 1: next couple of months of that one not working.
Speaker 3: On their second cycle, they got a positive pregnancy test.
Speaker 2: We were so excited and hopeful.
Speaker 1: And then we went to our first ultrasound and my
Speaker 1: body was creating all the pregnancy hormones, but there was
Speaker 1: no baby.
Speaker 3: It was an emotional rollercoaster, but they weren't ready to
Speaker 3: give up on their dream. After a few months, they
Speaker 3: decided to give IVF one final.
Speaker 4: Shot, our third try. We put in three embryos and
Speaker 4: thought that this was going to be our last opportunity.
Speaker 3: Finally they got the phone call they'd been waiting for.
Speaker 1: When they called and said that my levels were like
Speaker 1: in the nine hundreds and that I was pregnant. I
Speaker 1: was shocked and just elated after.
Speaker 3: Years of disappointment. They were cautious, almost afraid to believe
Speaker 3: that this pregnancy was real.
Speaker 4: We had done this before and believed we were pregnant,
Speaker 4: and then we go in for the ultrasound and we weren't.
Speaker 4: And so the real true moment for us was going
Speaker 4: in for that first ultrasound appointment and being able to
Speaker 4: see that there actually was a baby in there. It
Speaker 4: was one of the most joyous, amazing experiences of our life.
Speaker 3: Laura had an image in her head of what pregnancy
Speaker 3: would be like.
Speaker 1: I was always so excited to be pregnant because I
Speaker 1: thought I would be one of those cute pregnant ladies
Speaker 1: that wear all the cute pregnancy clothes and waddle about
Speaker 1: and just be happy all the time.
Speaker 3: Instead, Laura started having pre term contractions at twenty weeks.
Speaker 1: I was having a lot of them, and they were
Speaker 1: monitoring me, so they put me on strict bed rest
Speaker 1: for the rest of the pregnancy.
Speaker 4: We just kind of pushed through, like, Hey, this is
Speaker 4: all going to be worth it. It's going to be
Speaker 4: worth the wait.
Speaker 3: She spent the last few weeks of her pregnancy in
Speaker 3: the hospital under constant monitoring, until finally.
Speaker 1: They woke us up one morning and they're like, we're
Speaker 1: going to do a sea section this morning. And I
Speaker 1: remember during the sea section, just waiting to hear that
Speaker 1: little cry, you know, just waiting to hear that sound
Speaker 1: is and then you hear it and it's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it feels so good to have your dream come true.
Speaker 4: He was a miracle for us. Out of nine or
Speaker 4: ten embryos that we had put in through the courses
Speaker 4: of all the cycles. One was successful and it just
Speaker 4: felt like everything finally was in place and it was
Speaker 4: just overjoyed with happiness.
Speaker 3: They named their son Hudson, which was the name of
Speaker 3: both of their hometowns, hers in New Hampshire and his
Speaker 3: in Ohio. Hudson was happy and healthy. Despite how difficult
Speaker 3: it was to have him, the joy of being his
Speaker 3: parents outweighed it all and they wanted to do it again.
Speaker 1: We had still had some of those frozen embryos, and
Speaker 1: we decided to try more rounds of IVF.
Speaker 3: They went in with high hopes for another miracle like Hudson,
Speaker 3: but after their fifth IVF cycle ended in a miscarriage.
Speaker 2: We kind of did more soul searching.
Speaker 1: We were like, let's look into adoption, so we started
Speaker 1: raising money again.
Speaker 3: Just like IVF, adoption has upfront costs, big ones.
Speaker 1: We have an adoption yard sale and went back to family,
Speaker 1: you know, to borrow money.
Speaker 4: There were adoption facilitators whose job basically is to connect
Speaker 4: you with a birth mother, and they want to charge
Speaker 4: you fifteen to twenty thousand dollars just to talk to
Speaker 4: a birth mother. You know, it's like, hey, we've got
Speaker 4: a birth mother on hand. They really need somebody. If
Speaker 4: you send us fifteen thousand dollars, you can talk to them.
Speaker 3: Because they'd already invested so much money in building their family,
Speaker 3: the Traits needed to be resourceful.
Speaker 1: I have my graphic design degree, so I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll create a website for us, and we'll try and
Speaker 1: reach out to see if we can find birth moms
Speaker 1: who are looking for a nice family on our own
Speaker 1: instead of going through one of these agencies. So that's
Speaker 1: when I started creating this website called the Sibling for
Speaker 1: Hudson dot Com.
Speaker 3: A Sibling for Hudson dot com. The name said it
Speaker 3: all and it worked. Three different women were interested in
Speaker 3: having the Traits adopt their baby. They talked to them all,
Speaker 3: screening for the best match, somebody they could see being
Speaker 3: in their lives long term. That's how they settled on.
Speaker 2: This birth mom. Elizabeth Jones, Matt.
Speaker 3: And Laura Trade were dedicated to growing their family. It
Speaker 3: was their biggest dream. They made a website where they
Speaker 3: told their story, shared family photos, and made a heartfelt
Speaker 3: plead they wanted to adopt a baby. That's how they
Speaker 3: met Elizabeth Jones, a birth mother who was five months pregnant.
Speaker 1: She said that The reason they were adopting out their
Speaker 1: child was because she wanted to focus on her career
Speaker 1: and her husband did too, and they had two children already,
Speaker 1: so they couldn't afford to raise another child, and they
Speaker 1: felt like the best thing to do was to find
Speaker 1: another good family for that baby.
Speaker 3: Elizabeth lived in Virginia, across the country from the Traits
Speaker 3: in California. At first, the couple took it slow, made
Speaker 3: no assumptions, and took time to get to know each
Speaker 3: other over the phone. But after those initial calls, Laura
Speaker 3: started talking to Elizabeth every day.
Speaker 1: We were like growing this amazing bond, talking every day
Speaker 1: and really building a strong relationship. We had video calls.
Speaker 1: Matt and Hudson got to meet her through a video call.
Speaker 1: She kind of felt like a sister to me.
Speaker 3: Elizabeth was stoic, thoughtful, she'd been in the military, and
Speaker 3: she took things seriously. After a few weeks of talking
Speaker 3: every day, Elizabeth told the Traits that she'd made her decision.
Speaker 1: She told us, I really would love it if you
Speaker 1: guys would adopt my baby, and we found out at
Speaker 1: that time as a girl.
Speaker 3: They were overjoyed with the news. Laura and Elizabeth they'd
Speaker 3: become really close over the past month. Elizabeth felt like
Speaker 3: the right person, someone who could be a positive addition
Speaker 3: to their family, part of the baby's story.
Speaker 1: We wanted the baby to know where she came from.
Speaker 1: We were always going to be honest about that, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we could all have a really great relationship.
Speaker 3: So the Traits began the legal process, finding adoption attorneys
Speaker 3: and starting the paperwork. All the while they stayed cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 4: You never know if the birth mother is going to
Speaker 4: change their mind at the last minute, so we're remaining hopeful,
Speaker 4: but we're trying to kind of guard ourselves a little
Speaker 4: bit in the process because the baby has a right
Speaker 4: to stay with the birth mother if that's what they choose.
Speaker 3: But Elizabeth was all in.
Speaker 1: She kept telling us this baby girl is yours, and
Speaker 1: I have no plans whatsoever backing out, Like I really
Speaker 1: want you guys to be her family, and this is
Speaker 1: a great match. And we were like, this is a
Speaker 1: great match, and we love you guys, and we're so
Speaker 1: looking forward to doing this together as a unit.
Speaker 3: So the Traits started preparing a nursery for their baby.
Speaker 2: She sent us ultrasound photos.
Speaker 1: She even mailed us a stuffed unicorn with the baby's
Speaker 1: heartbeat in it, like recorded in it.
Speaker 2: So we were like elated setting up the baby's.
Speaker 1: Room here at our house and we put the little
Speaker 1: unicorn in there on the ultrasound photo.
Speaker 3: When Elizabeth was seven months pregnant, Laura decided to fly
Speaker 3: out to Virginia to meet her. Even though it was
Speaker 3: their first time meeting in person, it felt like a reunion.
Speaker 3: Laura greeted her with teary eyes and a long hug.
Speaker 1: We spent like every waking hour together, Like we went
Speaker 1: shopping for baby clothes together. We picked up a like
Speaker 1: a going home outfit, and we toured the hospital where
Speaker 1: she was going to give birth. We did a professional
Speaker 1: photo shoot, and I had made us shirts. Our shirts
Speaker 1: said birth mom Strong and my shirt said adoptive mom Strong.
Speaker 1: So I brought those out there with me and we
Speaker 1: had our professional photo shoot.
Speaker 3: In the photos, Laura and Elizabeth are standing in a
Speaker 3: wooded area, arm in arm. They're each making half of
Speaker 3: a heart with one hand holding the heart shape up
Speaker 3: to the camera. They're beaming, and they're matching shirts. The
Speaker 3: Treats sent this photo out as their holiday card.
Speaker 1: That weekend We also went to meet with the adoption
Speaker 1: attorney and she signed a power of attorney giving us
Speaker 1: rights to make medical decisions for the baby girl.
Speaker 3: Before she flew back home. Laura wanted to join Elizabeth
Speaker 3: at her doctor's appointment, and Elizabeth agreed.
Speaker 1: We were waiting in the waiting room and she had said, Oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot my water in the car, can run out
Speaker 1: and get my bottle of water. I'm really thirsty. I
Speaker 1: was like, sure, I'll be right back, but then when
Speaker 1: I came back into the waiting room, she was gone.
Speaker 1: So I had told the nurses at the front desk
Speaker 1: you know who I was, and thought I'd like to
Speaker 1: go back with her, and they were kind of giving
Speaker 1: me the run around, so I started texting her.
Speaker 3: Elizabeth texted back that they brought her into the exam
Speaker 3: room and while she was there looking at the baby
Speaker 3: on the ultrasound monitor, Elizabeth was overwhelmed with emotion. She
Speaker 3: asked Laura to wait outside.
Speaker 1: I was feeling for her because I'm here to see
Speaker 1: an ultrasound with her, and this must be hard for
Speaker 1: the birth mom to have this person in the room
Speaker 1: with her, and she's going to give up her baby
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: Matt hadn't come on this trip, so Laura called him
Speaker 3: to get his opinion.
Speaker 4: You don't want to push of birth mother, right because
Speaker 4: this is a huge decision you're making. And so you know,
Speaker 4: I've said before how empathetic Laura is and how she
Speaker 4: puts herself in other people's shoes, and you know, she
Speaker 4: was doing that, like feeling what this woman must have
Speaker 4: felt having to make this decision. So it made it
Speaker 4: understandable that there were some emotions going around.
Speaker 3: After the appointment, Laura knew she had to have a
Speaker 3: hard conversation with Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth and I had a heart to heart.
Speaker 1: I remember being like, Elizabeth, it's okay if you want
Speaker 1: to keep baby girl, Like the best place for her
Speaker 1: is with her family. If you want to keep the baby,
Speaker 1: it's okay, and maybe you should keep the baby, you know.
Speaker 1: But we really did bond during that conversation, and she
Speaker 1: just ended up reassuring me that it is what she wanted,
Speaker 1: and so I just kind of hung in there and
Speaker 1: tried to just kind of ignore my gut feelings and
Speaker 1: just try to see it from her point of view.
Speaker 3: Laura flew home feeling a bit nervous. She had expected
Speaker 3: to go into the exam room and talk to the doctor,
Speaker 3: but she empathized with Elizabeth's pain and she respected her.
Speaker 3: After all, Elizabeth was giving their family the biggest gift,
Speaker 3: and she never asked for a penny in return.
Speaker 4: At no time did she ever ask us to give
Speaker 4: her money, you know which some birth mothers do. I
Speaker 4: pay for my rent or pay for my bills. I
Speaker 4: need help.
Speaker 1: I remember her telling me, no, I don't want any money.
Speaker 1: I want you to put that money towards baby girl.
Speaker 3: The baby's do date was in late December, and the
Speaker 3: couple decided on a name for her.
Speaker 1: When we found out that the baby was due right
Speaker 1: around the holidays, we decided to name her Noela. We
Speaker 1: thought it was a fitting name for the time that
Speaker 1: she was due.
Speaker 3: Laura and Elizabeth kept talking every day and the conversations
Speaker 3: were intense, especially when in late November, Elizabeth started having
Speaker 3: pre term contractions, just like Laura had in her pregnancy
Speaker 3: with Hudson.
Speaker 4: She was in lots of pain. She had gone to
Speaker 4: the er several times, to the point where they put
Speaker 4: in something called a circlage.
Speaker 3: Its stitches in the cervix to prevent the baby from
Speaker 3: being born too early. Elizabeth kept the trades updated on
Speaker 3: what her doctors were saying.
Speaker 1: The doctor around this time also didn't amno and she
Speaker 1: said that the doctor said everything looked good, but she
Speaker 1: had to be on bedrest, and the doctor was okay
Speaker 1: with taking the circlause out and that it was better
Speaker 1: to take the baby out now to not do damage
Speaker 1: to her cervix. The baby girl's LUNs were fully developed
Speaker 1: at that time, so she was begging us to come
Speaker 1: back out for the delivery of the baby.
Speaker 3: Things were happening quickly. It was scary. Elizabeth said her
Speaker 3: doctors were recommending they removed the stitches and prepare for
Speaker 3: an early delivery. So the couple jumped into action.
Speaker 4: We were in Arizona visiting my family for Thanksgiving, so
Speaker 4: we're scrambling around trying to change light reservations and reaching
Speaker 4: out to the lawyer, and it was just like, Okay,
Speaker 4: it's time to get into action, to get out there
Speaker 4: and finally meet our daughter.
Speaker 3: The Traits and their son rushed to Virginia the day
Speaker 3: after Thanksgiving and rented an airbnb. They had packed everything
Speaker 3: they needed to bring home their daughter, Noela, and things
Speaker 3: with Elizabeth were progressing quickly.
Speaker 1: Right after she got her sirklage out, she came to
Speaker 1: the airbnb. They had said that she was three and
Speaker 1: a half centimeters dilated at that time. She spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time with us after that, and we were
Speaker 1: just trying to take care of our best we could.
Speaker 1: Every time she had a contraction, she was moaning and groaning,
Speaker 1: complaining about how much pain she was in. So we
Speaker 1: were just trying to be there for her to support
Speaker 1: her through it, just trying to love on her and
Speaker 1: just take care of her.
Speaker 3: They also took care of Elizabeth's two young kids.
Speaker 1: We were taking the kids out her kids out while
Speaker 1: she rested, and one of the kids noticed the car
Speaker 1: seat in her rental car and asked us, oh, is
Speaker 1: that for the baby.
Speaker 2: At that point we were like, oh, they know about
Speaker 2: the baby, okay.
Speaker 3: It was a relief that Elizabeth had talked to her
Speaker 3: kids about the adoption.
Speaker 4: Our son and her kids got along really well and
Speaker 4: spent a lot of time playing and going to various
Speaker 4: activities together. Just reassured us like, Hey, this is going
Speaker 4: to be great. You know, our families are going to
Speaker 4: know each other and they're going to grow up knowing
Speaker 4: each other, and that's going to be a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: It was also important to the Traits to be honest
Speaker 3: with Hudson throughout the adoption process.
Speaker 1: He was excited about having a brother's sister. It was
Speaker 1: something that he really wanted to so we were telling
Speaker 1: him that we were there to meet his baby's sister.
Speaker 3: After a week, the baby hadn't come.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a good thing. We want her to
Speaker 4: be healthy, and so we had told her we were
Speaker 4: going to go home the next day. I have school
Speaker 4: to get back to and Hudson had school to get
Speaker 4: back to, and it was just time for us to
Speaker 4: go back. And you know, look, we'll fly back out
Speaker 4: when baby comes, don't worry.
Speaker 3: Late that night, Laura received an alarming text from Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: She sent pictures of bloody sheets on the bed as
Speaker 1: she said that they were rushing at the hospit.
Speaker 3: The doctors examined Elizabeth at the hospital. They determined that
Speaker 3: she was in early labor and told her to come
Speaker 3: back in the morning when her labor had progressed further.
Speaker 3: The baby was premature, but otherwise healthy. Laura and Matt
Speaker 3: were elated that they would meet their baby the next day,
Speaker 3: but The next morning, Elizabeth's labor had progressed rapidly. She
Speaker 3: sent Laura and Matt even more photos of blood. That's
Speaker 3: when the urgency set in. She needed to go to
Speaker 3: the hospital right away, so the Traits jumped in their
Speaker 3: rental car, speeding to the hospital to meet her and
Speaker 3: the baby.
Speaker 1: She actually called me on our drive and she was
Speaker 1: screaming saying, there's blood everywhere, and oh my god, oh
Speaker 1: my god, the baby's coming. You know, there's blood all
Speaker 1: over the car and her husband was driving, and I
Speaker 1: was like trying to talk.
Speaker 2: Her through it. Just breathe, just take deep breaths.
Speaker 1: If you put your hand on there, can you feel
Speaker 1: the baby's head? Like, do you have anything to wrap
Speaker 1: the baby in?
Speaker 2: She was like, I have a towel?
Speaker 4: All you that.
Speaker 3: Then Elizabeth told Laura that her husband flagged down a
Speaker 3: passing ambulance. They were going to take the ambulance to the.
Speaker 2: Hospital, so we were like, okay, we'll meet you there.
Speaker 3: On her first visit, Laura toured the hospital and Nicki
Speaker 3: with Elizabeth. They'd met the nurses who'd be there for
Speaker 3: the delivery, met and Laura made it to the maternity
Speaker 3: ward before Elizabeth and the ambulance.
Speaker 1: I saw some of the nurses we had met during
Speaker 1: our tour, and I was like, you know, Elizabeth's giving
Speaker 1: birth and the ambulance and she's on her way.
Speaker 2: And so they jumped into action.
Speaker 1: They got a team together, They got a little incubator,
Speaker 1: the whole team of doctors and nurses and everyone. They
Speaker 1: were all waiting near the elevators for the baby to
Speaker 1: come up.
Speaker 3: Even in the rush, the trades had still remembered all
Speaker 3: their necessary paperwork.
Speaker 1: Matt was turning in our power of attorney, giving them
Speaker 1: our insurance information, getting all set with that.
Speaker 3: The chaos slowed down as the Trades waited by the
Speaker 3: elevator doors with an incubator.
Speaker 2: And we were just waiting and waiting.
Speaker 4: The more time that went by, the more uneasy we
Speaker 4: started to feel. Obviously, there was a sense of urgency
Speaker 4: because the baby needed the nick you and here we
Speaker 4: are at the NIKI waiting and baby's not coming, and
Speaker 4: baby's not coming.
Speaker 3: It felt like time was standing still. They looked down
Speaker 3: at their son, Hudson, who was six.
Speaker 4: We worked so hard to reach this moment. The dream
Speaker 4: was finally coming true. Our son had a big brother shirt.
Speaker 3: On as the minutes dragged on, a nurse pulled Laura away,
Speaker 3: suggesting that they go down to the er to be
Speaker 3: closer to the ambulance arrivals.
Speaker 1: We went, and those elevators only doctors are allowed to use.
Speaker 1: When we went down to the er, and all of
Speaker 1: the nurses were looking for this lady. They were telling
Speaker 1: us nobody got delivered here by the ambulance that gave birth,
Speaker 1: and so everybody was trying to figure it out. They're
Speaker 1: calling other hospitals to see if maybe they had gone
Speaker 1: to a different hospital with a nick you and Elizabeth
Speaker 1: just didn't realize which hospital they are taking her to.
Speaker 1: And then I remember one of the nurses coming up saying,
Speaker 1: there is someone here by the name of Elizabeth Jones,
Speaker 1: but she checked herself in for lower back pain and
Speaker 1: she's not even pregnant. Okay, Well, Elizabeth Jones is a
Speaker 1: common name, so maybe it's somebody else.
Speaker 3: On the next episode of Betrayal, the day the Trades
Speaker 3: had been dreaming of turns into a nightmare.
Speaker 1: She's saying she doesn't even know you. She's saying she
Speaker 1: has no idea of who you are.
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Speaker 3: a division of Glass Entertainment Group, in partnership with iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 3: The show was executive produced by Nancy Glass and Jennifer Fason,
Speaker 3: hosted and produced by me Andrea Gunning, written and produced
Speaker 3: by Monique Leborge, also produced by Ben Fetterman. Associate producers
Speaker 3: on this episode are Kristen Melcurie, Caitlin Golden, and Grace Bollinger.
Speaker 3: Our iHeart team is Ali Perry and Jessica Crincheck. Audio
Speaker 3: editing and mixing by Matt Delvecchio and Nico Ruka. Betrayal's
Speaker 3: theme composed by Oliver Bains. Music library provided by my Music.
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