Sarah and Andy were determined not to give up
Despite the fact that Sarah and Andy were with their birth mother throughout the process, something happened that would be devastating to the soon-to-be parents. The birth mother changed her mind at the last minute of her pregnancy and opted to keep her child.
This decision, of course, had to be respected by the Justices. But that didn’t change the fact that they were devastated, especially given how long they had waited and how much they had already been through. Giving up was not an option because the Justices had shown such tenacity up to this point. They made the decision to move on.
Everything changed after that