We have big news!
We will be adopting a sweet, little girl. She came into our lives quickly and unexpectedly, and we are so thankful to be given the opportunity to be her parents.
With this amazing blessing comes a lot of costs that we did not anticipate in the previous months. It might surprise you to hear that adoptions can cost up to $35,000. We're inviting our friends and family to help us reach a goal of $11,000 to help with the costs of making our sweet girl a part of our family officially.
We appreciate any amount that you can consider giving and we are beyond thankful for all of the emotional and social support we have received so far in this journey.
We are so appreciative of all the support we have received so far! To celebrate reaching $2000 raised we wanted to share how this opportunity to adopt came to be. It is quite different from the typical adoption story!
As many of my family and friends know I am a labor and delivery nurse. Our baby’s birth mother was a patient of mine, and to protect her privacy there are lots of details I will not be sharing.
Prior to our baby’s birth I triaged a patient who wanted resources on adoption. I put in a social work consult to get her these resources, and as a reassurance I shared that there are so many people out there that are looking to adopt, and that Andrew and I had even considered adoption.
For a little background I work nightshift weekends exclusively. A couple weeks after having that patient in triage I was working a random weekday in preparation for a vacation we had planned. This patient who I previously triaged came in on that shift and I was able to care for her again. Before birth I clarified what she was comfortable with as far as contact with the baby. After birth we had a long conversation about her desires for placement of this baby. I brought up several options which she felt were not right for her and her baby. Hesitantly I told her if there were no other options she wanted to consider that Andrew and I would adopt her baby. Her response to this was “Really? I didn’t want to ask and put any pressure on you, but I hoped you would.” At this I was both elated and nervous about how this would play out. Was I getting my hopes up for nothing? Would she change her mind? Would nurse/patient legalities stand in the way?
Prayers had been answered, but I wasn’t able to feel the full joy of it. I had to protect my heart from the prospect of alternative outcomes.
Clearly a lot went in our favor after that! In the next update I will continue this story of how we were able to bring our sweet little miss home. Share our update with your friends to help us reach our fundraising goal!
