Isn't it amazing how our lives can change in an instant? How God's plan unveils itself at just the perfect moment to let us know without a doubt that He is in control? Well, Scott and I got to experience that this weekend...on Saturday, January 28th, our lives changed forever!! We got to meet two of the most wonderful, courageous, selfless people we have ever known, the birthparents of our soon to be born baby! Yes, that's right, we have been matched!!
After 7 long years of trying to have a baby of our own, Scott and I have been blessed to have been chosen by this young couple to be the parents of their child. We feel so blessed, so excited, and so honored to have been chosen by them to parent this precious baby. What an awesome responsibility and one that we couldn't be more ready for!! We absolutely loved the birthparents instantly-they are a darling couple-smart, funny, so cute, and mature beyond their years. Scott and I were so impressed with them and are thrilled that they liked us as much as we liked them!! What a relief!! :) We couldn't have imagined a better match!!
In 3 short months this sweet baby will make it's way into the world...funny since it has already made it's way into our hearts!! 1 Samuel 1:27 says, "I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him". Well this child has been prayed for...by me, by Scott, by our entire family, our friends, our coworkers. Virtually everyone we have ever known, has prayed for THIS child-the one that we would call our own. God is faithful, God is good, and God is always in control. I thank God for this child and I am so amazed that I get to be it's mom.
How GREAT is our God!!!
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ReplyDeleteSonia and Scott, we are so happy and so excited for you! AHHHHHHHHHH! We know that you will be great parents and this is your time. Our family has also been praying for you guys and we are so happy that you will be blessed with a little one! We are so happy and excited for your parents as well! They will be some of the best grandparents ever!
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As a Christian and one that would never refer to an expectant mother and father as birth parents I am praying that God tells them that they will be the best parents for their child. Real Christians encourage parents to be that .. parents. Real Christians would adopt from foster care.
ReplyDeleteAs a student of adoption and the world of adoptees, I hope you will read Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier so you come to understand the terrible trauma a baby goes through when its taken from its mother. If you love children donate money to schools or orphanages in Africa. If you really love this baby consider helping this couple financially so the baby stays with its mother where it truly belongs.
DeleteOrganising the "choosing" of parents, especially in an online, public manner, is child trafficking, pure and simple. No woman should be making a decision to relinquish her child while still pregnant, or even in the aftermath of childbirth, while under the influence of pain medications, lactation supressants and without knowing all of the other available options and resources to help them parent. This is what's so powerfully wrong with adoption: childless couples desperately seeking a child. History has taught us nothing as human beings.
ReplyDeleteIf the parents of this baby are "mature beyond their years," they are capable of raising their baby themselves. Why not offer them assistance in the form of all of the diapers, clothes, bottles, etc. you've purchased to do the truly Christian thing and help them to raise their child themselves? True Christians don't pray for someone else to give up their flesh and blood. If this young couple -- married or not -- had a little support, I bet they would be fine parents.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, stop coveting someone else's unborn baby. The mother may still change her mind and then what? Since you claim it is THIS baby you're in love with, will you stop seeking others' infants? Look into adoption from foster care. There are over 100,000 children in foster care in the U.S. who truly need homes and loving families. Babies aren't babies for long. Eventually you won't even remember that you didn't raise your child from birth. I know because I adopted a toddler from foster care 10 years ago. I don't miss the baby years that I never had.
If you do end up adopting this infant or another one, I hope you keep his "darling, smart, cute, funny, and mature" parents in his life. He deserves to know his origins.