We've been pursuing adoption for a year and a half and on Monday, May 8th, we got THE call we have hoped and prayed for. A momma, Momma "B," has chosen us to be her baby's family. We are so thankful to get to know her, honored to be a part of her story, just so humbled by all the women (and men!) we've come to know about over the last year and half making the brave decision to pursue adoption, and of course absolutely elated that there is a Baby Dimick #3 coming!
So our family is here to bring our community in on our journey and if you feel lead to support us or have felt the desire to support adoption in general, we'd be forever grateful for your help.
The reality is adoption is expensive, as it should be. There is a lot of necessary legal fees for the protection of everyone in the adoption triad (birth momma/parents, adoptive parent(s), and child), a lot of incredibly necessary support for the brave birth moms choosing the path of adoption in the form of counseling, medical care, living expense support, etc., and in our case because we live in a different state (and definitely need to fly), travel expenses.
You may be wondering how we came to adoption. We went to a conference called Jubilee in college and went to a talk from a volunteer from an orphanage overseas, and this sparked the discussion about adoption. We were in college at this point and having children wasn't on our radar at the moment, but we knew it would be eventually and just casually agreed that we both felt like adoption was a way we'd have children. Fast forward to being ready for children in 2017, I had a miscarriage but thankfully was able to get pregnant with Miles shortly after. However, when Miles was 4 months old in November of 2018, I (Monica) had to have emergency surgery for something called an ovarian torsion. I had a gigantic cyst on my ovary I didn't know about that had caused my ovary to twist on itself and long story short, it died and my ovary had to be surgically removed. But I still had 1 ovary left! But surprise, it had the same type of cyst on it. My doctors told me that it's probably going to get bigger and may cause the same thing to happen if we don't surgically remove the cyst, but when they go in to surgically remove the cyst they won't know exactly what it's going to be like and may have to remove my 1 and only remaining ovary, so if we want to have more kids, we should try to do that. Praise the Lord, enter Nora in May 2020. I had surgery to get that other cyst removed in December 2020, and the end result is that I cannot have more biological kids. And we had a really supernatural peace about this! Because we knew adoption was going to be a part of our story somehow, someway, so we really took this as God saying 'it's go time!' So November 2021 we began the paperwork, signed on with the most incredible consultant group Mustard Seed Adoption Consultants, and April 2022 started having our profile presented to momma's wanting to place their babies for adoption. The 36th momma we presented to chose us, and although the wait and every "no" we heard was so painful, we know God ordained every minute of our waiting and we could not be more humbled and grateful for every "no" we got so that we could make it to Momma B.
So that's it in a nutshell! If you have either of us on social media or our phone numbers and have any questions, really please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We are so grateful to be in this space and just can't believe the incredible story God is orchestrating. Thanks for taking the time to read about it and come alongside us.
XOXO. Monica, Seth, Miles, & Nora
