✨ We’re Opening This Chapter Again… ✨ It honestly feels like it’s been years since we first said “yes” to adoption again… because in many ways, it has been. We feel like we’ve “started” this journey more times than we can count. Paperwork would begin, and then life would happen. Another obstacle. Another pause. Another …
My whole life all I ever wanted was to have a family with lots of kids but 10.5 years ago I quickly realized that might not be my reality. For 10.5 years we have struggled with “unexplained infertility.” We have had test after test, procedure after procedure, we have seen doctor after doctor only to …
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You want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s start with the good news!! As of 1pm today (Wednesday November 10), we are discharged and heading home. Henry has had a great morning. He slept in 2 hour increments last night from about 9pm-6am, so not horrible. Once his anesthesia and nerve block …
Just a quick update…Surgery went as planned, about 2 hours total from the time they took him until the surgeon came to tell us he was done.It took about 2 hours from then until we saw him again. Coming off anesthesia is hard for anyone but I can’t explain how it is on babies that …
You think you’re prepared for your child to go back for surgery until they wheel them away. I remember walking away from the nurse with Kristen as they took Henry to the operating room and feeling helpless. The best cleft surgeon, with the best cleft team, were about to have Henry in their care for …
So where are we now… as we approach Henry’s next surgery and I was getting to share when his surgery is and what we are expecting, I realized we left you hanging after the TPR didn’t go through back in July with the sibling group. Life has been busy and we completely forgot to update …
When we started this process a couple of months ago, we knew there were going to be a lot of “what if’s,” emotions and scenarios that we were going to have to think through. We knew that in the end, the Lord knows our hearts and knows what’s best for the kids even if that …
A little over a month ago we announced that we were starting the process of fostering with the hopes of adoption. As of Saturday, we are officially done with our foster training, our paperwork’s done and we are waiting for our home study walk through. Today we ask for specific prayers. The TPR (terminate parental …
LIFE UPDATE: Henry: Yesterday (6/3/21), we had Henry’s post-op appointment from his surgery. Everything looks great and is healing well. They told us to start with scar massages and to put scar cream on the lip (they gave us what they recommended that is safe for babies). Once the doctor was done seeing us, she …
People have been asking how Henry is doing now that we are 6 days post surgery and I keep forgetting to give a little update. Our biggest thing right now is eating. In the hospital he was drinking 4 oz every 3 hours (even through the night) and then most of the day on Tuesday …
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