
On February 17, U.S. YouTuber Myka Stauffer posted a picture to Instagram of her little boy, Huxley, who she shared with her husband, James, sitting on her lap.
“The last couple days have been hard,” she captioned the image. “I don’t want to sugarcoat anything. We have had a lot of meltdowns, and lots of behaviours that have had us on our knees begging God for guidance!
“I wish autism and adoption trauma had a manual to direct you through it all.”
After two years of updates about adopting Huxley from China, about his additional needs and his various therapies, that was it — that was the last image Stauffer posted of her four-year-old son.
In a video announcement on her YouTube channel this week, the Ohio woman explained why.
“He needed more”: Myka Stauffer on relinquishing her adopted son.
Stauffer told her more than 700,000 subscribers that she and her husband had decided to relinquish Huxley to another family.