Seth & Maggie Tuttle

We are thrilled to announce that after almost three years of praying for God to grow our family, experiencing three pregnancy losses, and hitting a dead end with what seems like a closed womb and not wanting to go any further for now, God has opened our hearts toward adoption.

In the summer of 2024, I (Maggie) started thinking about adoption but knew it wasn’t quite the right time for us to consider it. Fast forward to the beginning of 2025. Seth and I started looking into adoption together, I first started looking into resources from Focus on the Family and one of the book recommendations was “Small Town, Big Miracle” by Bishop W.C. Martin. So Seth started reading it to us at night after Daisy went down. It’s an inspiring true story from a small town in Texas where a church took in and adopted 77 children out of foster care. Oh, the stories in that book had us both crying and laughing! Only further melting our heart toward, “Well, I mean, maybe we can do that.”

Simultaneously, we’d gotten to the point in our journey of, “If our friends died tomorrow, we’d be the first to say, pick us! We’ll raise the children!” And through a series of sometimes funny events, God kept directing us toward adoption.

Fast forward to now, we had a consultation at the beginning of December (to the day, 1 year and 1 day after our last loss) with the adoption agency that we’ve chosen to go through for our private domestic adoption. Not even 3 full weeks later and by the generosity of those around us, we are fully funded to start our home study. That happened way sooner than we thought! The home study process is filled with education, background checks, personal interviews, and lots of paperwork to pry into every area of our lives and prove that we’d be good enough parents to adopt. It takes about 2-4 months to complete and then we’ll be a family waiting to be chosen by a birth mama.

That said, we have to raise between $40,000- 60,000 for this adoption. These funds will go toward supporting the mother who will choose our family while she’s pregnant and choosing life for her child (which is the most important thing here and a beautiful way to live out the Gospel as Christians), agency fees, legal fees and all the varied fees that come along in this really big process.

We are thrilled that God has kept this door wide open to our dream of growing our family. My heart can barely handle the thought of Daisy being a big sister. And that I might be entrusted with another baby to love and care for after the losses we’ve experienced and watch my husband grow into a father of two.

We hope that you would share in this same vision with our family, because this is truly bigger than we ever imagined and it’s something that we cannot do alone. We need your love and support whatever ways the Spirit may lead you to give that. It takes a village to raise a child and this specific child, whom we haven’t even met yet, is going to also need a village to get him or her home to us.

Thank you for partnering alongside us in whatever form that may look. We are truly blessed that adoption might even be an option for our family.

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