November is National Adoption Awareness Month, and I want to tell you what happened next for a mom you may remember.
Last year, we shared Sarah’s* story. She came to one of our centers for a pregnancy test, still grieving the loss of her mother, whom she considered her best friend. Her ultrasound showed she was already 20 weeks along. Stunned and alone, she was leaning toward abortion.
Our team prayed she would come back. She did, and she told us she had decided to make an adoption plan.
“In some ways my baby is saving me,” Sarah said. And she was saving her baby, too.
Our nurses and advocates walked with her through her pregnancy. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and chose an open adoption with a family that had a big extended family, because she loved thinking about how many people would love her daughter.
Earlier this year, Sarah’s adoption agency called with an unusual request. The adoption was being finalized over Zoom, and the adoptive parents wanted Sarah there. They didn’t want her on the outside of her daughter’s story. They wanted her in it.
So Sarah joined from one of our counseling rooms, with the advocate who first sat with her and the nurse who performed her first ultrasound. She hugged them again and again and thanked them for the empowering information that helped her decide.
There were tears. But Sarah said she felt at peace.
“After losing my mom, I felt I had no family left,” she told us. “But now I do.”
Her story is a reminder of God’s faithfulness, and friends like you made it possible. Because of you, every woman who walks through our doors hears about all of her options, including adoption, from people who care about her and her baby. When she chooses adoption, we connect her with trusted partners who can keep caring for her along the way.
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The next woman who walks through our doors may feel just as alone as Sarah did. Your gift today means she won’t be.
This month, would you join me in praying for Sarah, for moms and dads who have made the courageous choice to parent, and for the adoptive families who have opened their hearts and homes?