Adoptive Parent Stacey Doss Becomes a Crusader: Operation Vanessa

Adoptive Parent Stacey Doss Becomes a Crusader: Operation Vanessa

In June 2008, Stacey Doss of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA got a phone call that changed her path in life. The public relations consultant, was recently divorced and after years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, still longing for a baby, to raise in the same loving family she had grown up in. She decided adoption was her best choice to fulfill the dream of motherhood and a short time later she was matched with a young woman from Ohio. Doss said when they talked on the phone they just "clicked". On June 13, 2008, the call came from the bio - mother, after she had given birth a couple weeks early - Doss caught the next flight to Dayton, to meet her new baby. A precious little girl, with big brown eyes and soft curly hair; she named her Vanessa and after filing a petition of adoption on July 1, 2008, Doss brought her baby home to Southern CA.