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If you are reading this, you are a beautiful human being!! I will start off by Intruducing myself and telling you my story!! On August 17th, I gave birth to Aurora Rose. She was beautiful, healthy, happy, and a whopping 8lbs 10oz. Medically speaking, my pregnancy was a cake walk. Hardly sick, low risk, and Aurora had hit every developmental milestone!! My living situation was what was stressful and less than ideal to say the least. I was homeless by the time I gave birth to Aurora. Instantly in love. Such a blessing! So unfortunately, the state found her to be dependent and instantly broke my heart and took her from me right from the hospital... That was extremely hard because it was just a year of bad luck and unfortunate event after event, and just mental exhaustion that created such a hopeless image. Her father and I were living together the first 6 months of my pregnancy. Things were great. Until unfortunately, due to no fault of my own he went to jail for something completely unrelated to me our our baby and subsequently sentenced to 11 months in county jail. So that left me homeless, with no where to live. Obviously he didn't plan on going to jail, not did we expect that 11 months sentence to be handed to him. But it it happened. So he was going to miss the birth of our daughter. Since I was living with him, when he went to jail, I was homeless. I was employed, working for dominos, not making much money however I wasn't alone in the financial burden of living. So that changed overnight. And left the obligation to me. I supported him in jail. While trying to work. I ended up living in my car, friends and families couches, hotels, and even the concrete floor of my storage unit briefly. There is absolutely no resources for homeless people let alone pregnant homeless people in my area. I ended up quitting job due to just the unmanageability of being homeless. It was so exhausting. I went from having her father there to support me, having a baby shower planned out with a registry and all to being just completely out on bad luck. Could never financially get ahead. So unfortunately, they deemed her dependent and swiped my poor baby girl away instead of offering us resources or housing so that we could thrive together. Her father and I never and I repeat never even thought of putting her up for adoption. She is wanted. I believe the system does biological parents and injustice if they are economically disadvantaged and it's a shame. That is why I figured I should reach out and see if I could get some reunification support by crowd funding. If families are allowed to do it to cover adoption expenses, why cannot I do it to cover reunification? Fast forward 9 months later and they keep pushing back reunification. Since she was born I have not only gotten a full time job, if no one but two, I got a 3 bedroom house, that is healthy, beautiful, and condusive for her to grow up in. My vehicle was impounded during my homelessness, and was just let go because I could not afford it... I read through the profiles of all the parents that are waiting for babies and it is most certainly enlightening. We all share the same virtues. All we want is to love little babies and kids, our desire and motivation is all the same. If I am not able to get ahead financially the system is going to keep declaring her dependent. It's so unfortunate that biological parents are not afforded the same support that prospective adoptive families are. I hope that through this crowdfunding outreach that I am able to inspire some people to help me on my journey. My rent for our 3 bedroom house is $1400 a month and it is not subsidized. My utilities totaled are around $400 a month and are not subsidized either. Her father has since left and gone back home to his father's so he is not here to share the financial burden. I can and I will make it as a single mom, but if I can get a little support that would mean the world to me. Help Aurora's and my reunification. 

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