Our first adoption had some challenges as well, but we were rather naive and just rolled with the punches. This time, some people outside the dynamic interfered; some "friends" of the birth parents convinced them that it was evil for them to place their child for adoption, despite the fact that they both are in rehab and unemployed. The father does not want to raise another child, and the mother is ambivalent, but the bullying of their "friends" convinced her to pull out of the adoption about three weeks short of delivery. Not so much worried about any "omen", but rather it becomes hard to trust again. Just trying to find a place of humble trust in God that He will provide for us what we need in the way of a family.