Safe Sleep for babies

A family in my neighborhood lost their little rainbow baby from something that was 100 percent preventable. This family struggled with multiple losses before getting pregnant with their rainbow. Then just like that this little baby was taken from his family and earth too soon. I want to share a bit of their story and about safe sleep practices for all the little babies.
Their little guy went to a home daycare. The daycare worker let him sleep in his car seat and he was swaddled in the car seat. He was not buckled in his seat. The daycare worker didn't check on him for 1 1/2 hours. The door was closed and there was no monitor to listen/watch so little Shepard couldn't alert her that he was in any trouble. The daycare worker was distracted talking with a friend while he was in the other room sleeping. When she checked on him he wasn't breathing. He slid down in his seat and was suffocated. ( Positional asphyxia) You can read their whole story and learn safe sleep practices on their page. https://www.facebook.com/shepardswatchOK?fref=ts
Reading their story still brings tears to my eyes. My little guy is right around Shepard's age. Ali will share their story with you. If we all work together we can educate people on safe sleep practices for our smallest little miracles on this earth. I have already learned a lot from Ali pushing for safe sleep practices for babies. I hope that you will go to the link above and read their whole story. If you are a blogger would you share about Shepard and safe sleep practices?

What is going on in our lives?

I haven't blogged much about how things are going with us. I have thought and thought about what and how much I want to share about our little guy publicly on my blog. I don't want to make it private since I feel like someone may need to read our journey. I don't want to share too much information about my little guy either. I will say that he is 9 months and the happiest little boy ever. He is seriously the biggest blessing in our lives. He has taken so much sadness away from all the pain we experienced with infertility. I am a stay at home mom now. I thought I would miss teaching, but honestly I love spending my time with him and I am so glad we made the decision for me to stay home.

Our adoption story...

On Dec. 3rd our homestudy was approved and the very next day Braxton's birth mom choose us to be his parents. We met her about a week later to have dinner with her-open adoption. Braxton was born on Dec. 14, 2014 at 11:22 Am. We were called that morning around 3 I believe to head to the hospital where we waited till our sweet boy was born. It was love at first sight. We love

his birth mom so much..she made some choices during her pregnancy that we were not sure how it would effect him, but God protected our sweet boy and he is perfectly healthy. I am choosing to not go into detail about those choices because I don't want a lot of judgment against her. She made a selfless choice. She has had a hard life and unless you walked in her shoes we just can't sit back and judge her. He weighed 6 lbs and 3 ounces. It took 2 months to fully get rights terminated from both potential birth dads. It was a long wait, but it is finally over. Our adoption happened fairly quick overall. It is crazy to think about how it all worked out for us. Our case workers have been amazing and I love our agency so much! Adoption is really an amazing thing and I can't imagine our lives without our little miracle baby. He is truly a miracle baby to us!

Our adoption

Sorry I have not updated in so long! First off our adoption home study was approved on December 3, 2014. Then a birth mom picked our profile on December 4, 2014. Then our sweet blessing was born on December 14, 2014. We are not allowed to share details or pictures at this time. Later in time I will share more about our beautiful story. We are truly thankful that God picked us to be parents of this child and forever thankful for this opportunity that at times we never thought we would have. After a long and painful 3 1/2 years we finally have our little miracle baby. Until later...