Bean Baby

Hello, We would like to start by saying thank you from the bottom of our hearts for visiting our page and getting to know us a little better. Any amount of support is greatly appreciated! Even if you cannot donate, just sharing our page helps us out!
I want to start off by telling you a little bit about Doug and myself. We both have a love for children and a passion for guiding them into being healthy and happy individuals. Having this enthusiasm is what led us to meet through our work. We are both gymnastics coaches at All American Flames Gymanstix. Doug is always understanding and encouraging of his students on their level. He has such a fun and light personality that students can’t wait to be in his classes. I have worked with children since I was a teenager. I started off babysitting for several families for many dedicated years. After I earned my degree in psychology I have since worked with families to create a better life for the parents and children. I still coach gymnastics alongside my husband and work a full time job. Apart from our work, we love spending time with our nieces and nephews. We value family and friends and use most of our free time to enjoy being with them. We are nothing extraordinary. We are an average couple that does average things and long to have the chance to start our own family.
After Doug and I were married in 2015 we began planning to start this family, but as we all know, things in life don’t always go as planned. We decided this was our time. Instead of taking a honeymoon we were going to pay for Doug to have a surgical procedure that would allow us to try and start our little family. Sadly, around that time my mom had a bad flare up of her Relapse-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. My dad has his own health issues as well. As I said before, we value family above anything else. My parents have been together for 36 years and have only taken a couple weekend vacations for themselves in that time. We were concerned about them and wanted them to have a once in a life time experience together before my mom’s condition got any worse, as there is no cure for M.S. Doug and I got together with my siblings and chose to pool our money to send our parents on a vacation that they have dreamed about since they were married. Nothing was greater than watching their eyes fill with tears of joy as they realized that their dream was coming true. It made it all worth it. At that moment, money didn’t matter.
We told ourselves we had time to save money again for the surgery. As time continued to pass we got closer to our goal, only to find out the surgery costs were greater than we anticipated. Now another year has passed and we feel like we’re running out of time and options. Every month our dream seems to slip further away. This is why we hesitantly have decided to ask for help. After much research and doctor visits we’ve been told the success of the surgery is close to 80%. We have considered other routes, including adoption, but we have decided for right now that this is the best shot we have! It has been recommended to us by multiple doctors we’ve seen. We desperately want to have our own child together but need to have this done first in order for that to be possible. If other people can make their dreams come true, I believe we can too. Even if there was a slim to none chance at this being a success we would take that chance in an instant. We have to at least try!
We thank you again for taking the time to hear our story! We are grateful for any and all support!

Love Christina and Doug Bean