Exciting Announcement for our Family

We have been waiting for months to make our official announcement, so we are so excited to finally let everyone know that our family of 4 will be welcoming a new baby into our lives. As many of you know, we have struggled with miscarriages and after our 5th pregnancy loss last year, I was certain that God had an amazing plan for us. After lots of reading, talking with friends and family, and research, we decided to begin the approval process of becoming adoptive parents. Adoption has always been on my heart before even having children and to see it all become a reality is such an awesome feeling.

We found a local non-profit adoption agency, Independent Adoption Center, that specializes in open adoption. We fell in love with the agency and just felt at home from the 1st orientation. We loved that this agency focuses on counseling and support for both the birthparents, the adoptive parents and also our adopted child. The agency also has no racial, ethnic, age, religion, marital status or sexual orientation restrictions for prospective adoptive parents, which is another thing we loved.  We were proud to be part of an organization that supports the right for everyone that can provide a loving home to become parents.

So we just became officially approved through our home study process and went into "circulation" as they call it. This means that we have an online profile that is available for birthmothers to learn more about our family posted on our adoption agency's website. Birthmothers choose from prospective adoptive parents and match with the adoptive parent that they feel works best for their baby. The most common question we are asked is how long will this take? Our pre-approval process took about 8 months and now that our profile is in circulation, the average wait is about 14 months. We are reminded that when the right match comes along, we will be ready, whether it is in 1 month or a couple years.

We are so excited for this new journey and thank you for all your support. We will be sure to keep you updated with all the latest.

All our love!
The Maddox Family

You can visit our online profile at:
http://www.iheartadoption.org/users/heatherandjason