Giving Tuesday

Mark your calendars for Giving Tuesday on November 27, 2018. When you give to Lilyfield on Giving Tuesday you are giving so much more than money. You are giving hope!

Hope to the pregnant woman who wants more for the child they are carrying then they believe they can give. Hope to the husband and wife who long to have a child. Hope to the child in foster care that wants a safe, stable home. Hope to the foster child who has aged out and is looking for a great future. We also have a chance to provide hope of stability and safety to children who have not yet entered foster care through our EmpowerOKC program. When you give to Lilyfield you partner with us to make these dreams come true. With your help we will provide hope and healing to more than 600 individuals in 2019. 

Donate towards Giving Tuesday in honor of an adoptive or foster family, or someone impacted by adoption.

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Tell your story about how adoption or foster care has changed your life and share it using #MyGivingStory and #LilyfieldOK.

Read Hannah and Cory's Story.

"With the help of Lilyfield Cory and I (Hannah) became foster parents in June of 2016. We did respite care since I was at the end of my pregnancy with our first child. When she turned 3 months old we opened our home up for traditional foster care. On December 13, 2016 we received a call for placement for a 5 month old baby boy who had extended medical needs. About 3 hours after that phone call came our sweet boy, 6 oxygen tanks, an oxygen condenser (aka "the beast"), miles of tubes, a pulse ox machine, a nebulizer, and a few other pieces of equipment. It looked like a hospital had vomited all over our living room. I thought, ''This is going to be so messy." Not just the equipment all over the couch and floor, but what would the emotional toll be that comes with caring for such a sick baby? On one hand I was up for the challenge, but I was also double-checking with God that He was sure this was what He had intended for my family.

The first night Solomon slept okay but after that, he would only sleep for about 20 minutes at a time before screaming a very unnatural wail. Over the next month or so Cory held this baby through night after sleepless night and I held him day after day. His cries hurt our hearts; we had no way of helping him or even knowing what was going on. A while later we got the results of his blood test saying he had been high when he was first brought into our home. Only then did we find out that the eerie shrieks and the strange smell of his brown sweat was him detoxing. God kept him safe in our inexperienced hands during that time.

Soon we began to notice Solomon missing some of his milestones as well as failing his tests to wean off the oxygen. We had countless appointments with different specialists chasing down each of his symptoms. We finally got him off the oxygen (Praise. The. Lord! An active baby sleeping with oxygen and pulse ox cords is a disaster) and began many hours of therapy trying to help him gain muscle and working on his cognitive abilities. In November 2017 we learned that Solomon has a very rare genetic disorder called MED13L. When we first found out it was a little overwhelming, but mostly a huge relief to have some answers.

We were ecstatic to adopt Solomon in December 2017. He is now 2 years old and doing very well, he loves wrestling with his same age sister, Margo, and making his little sister, Juniper, laugh. Like any 2 year old boy he likes to be ornery, climb things, and play in the dirt. We continue with his therapies that target the characteristic delays for his condition, non-verbal/speech delay being one of the biggest hurdles. There is a possibility that he could require lifelong care, however he seems to be high functioning from what we can gather and we have such great hope for his future, whatever that may look like.

Though Solomon has come from a hard place, we would like to say that we love his mother and still see and talk to her regularly. Lilyfield walked beside us through the entire process from beginning to end and supported us in every way; we are so grateful for Lilyfield."

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Thank you for partnering with Lilyfield to build healthy families and communities in Oklahoma.