Behind every adoption story is a journey that led there, and this one carries years of longing, resilience, and faith. I had the privilege of supporting this family as they stepped forward in trust, even after so much disappointment. Watching their story unfold has been incredibly special, and I’m so grateful to share it here.
We decided we wanted to start our family in 2019, after seven years of marriage. Kendall had completed graduate school, and Maycee was over halfway through medical school. An early miscarriage led to the discovery that Maycee has a balanced translocation, making it difficult to maintain a pregnancy. Maycee matched into a general surgery residency, and we started IVF right away. Ultimately, we did five rounds of IVF, but all failed. During that time, we also had two additional miscarriages.
During the whole process, we were being led toward adoption, and we spent a lot of time learning and praying about whether it was right for us. We learned of Christian Adoption Consultants through a friend and decided to book the consultation. Immediately during our phone call with Susan, we felt like this could really be the right next step for us. We signed up with Christian Adoption Consultants in September and immediately began the homestudy process. Susan was so helpful in providing recommendations for home study agencies, placing agencies, and guidance and prayer throughout that time. She would always send a friendly text or email to check in and was always so patient and kind with her responses to my questions. She made us the most beautiful profile book that really captured who we are and helped make that process feel manageable.
Our home study process was finally completed in February, and our agency applications were completed shortly thereafter. As we continued praying and preparing our hearts for whatever baby God had for our family, we looked at our calendar and decided to pray a very big and specific prayer. We felt like the right timing for our lives, work, and upcoming plans would be to have a baby who was born in April. After years and years of infertility, we did feel a little bit crazy to pray so specifically for a baby so soon, but we really leaned on Romans 12:12: "Be joyful in Hope, patient in trials, faithful in prayer," and Hebrews 10:23: "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for he who promised is faithful."
You can imagine our surprise when we got a text message on April 1st about a mom in labor asking if we’d like to present our profile. With it being April Fools’ Day, we felt shocked that God would answer our very big and very specific prayer so quickly. We thought this was exactly what we’ve been praying for, so let’s be faithful to take our next step and present our profile, because maybe this would be our baby. A couple of hours later, we were informed that the birth mom chose us, and the next thing we knew, we were on a flight across the country to meet our baby. We learned that the baby was born while we were flying, and they asked if we wanted to know the gender. We said yes! And learned that we would shortly be meeting our daughter.
Walking to the hospital room, we were very nervous to meet her and her birth mom, and we wondered what this process was going to feel and look like. When I met her birth mom, we hugged each other for a very long time and cried together while we both held this sweet baby girl. We spent a couple of hours with baby and her birth mom until her birth mom left the hospital. We spent that first night in the hospital with our daughter and the next day took her “home” to our hotel.
It’s amazing how immediately we loved this baby girl so much. And how we went from 0 to 100 in terms of every aspect of our lives, and every decision we made revolved around this tiny miracle baby. Our hearts were healed in an instant.
Looking back on the last several years, I don’t have a clear reason why our path has looked like this, but I know with certainty that God‘s hand was in it the whole time, and he was preparing us for this season and this baby. God is a God of provision. He is faithful and can be trusted with the deepest longings of your heart. We thank God every day for our daughter and the way He has built and is building our family.
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