We provide a comprehensive guide on staying healthy during pregnancy, acknowledging the special considerations for those brave women choosing adoption.
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The adoption process connects a woman making an adoption plan with a family looking to adopt. Here is some adoption verbiage for you to become familiar with.
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Join us as we delve into the pivotal factors that shape this choice. We explore the key elements that guide you toward making an informed and heartfelt decision. There is no doubt that a Birth mother wants the best for her child.
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In the process of adoption, it’s easy to feel powerless. In fact, you probably should…because you are.
Your timeline, your future plans, your finances, your heart—including your potential future child—are all on the line. All the details are out of your control, and nothing is guaranteed. Even though this is the case for all of life, us hopeful adoptive parents certainly get a heightened dose of awareness of this fact. It is by far the most difficult process of surrender I’ve ever experienced, and I don’t think it’s just because I’m a bit of a control-freak!
When a woman calls our office inquiring about placing her child for adoption, it seems every story they share is different. Each woman seems to have a different idea about what kind of family they seek for their child, how much they want to be involved with the adoptive family and even how she sees the relationship developing in the future. Each birth mother approaches her plan to place her child for adoption in different ways. Our goal on the other end of the phone, is for a mom to feel listened to, validated and never judged. We are not here to judge, and we make that very clear to any mom we speak with. We do not know what is right for a birth mother and we would never pretend we do!
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After doing adoptions for so long, I really thought I had experienced everything ….but I was wrong!
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021 is recognized as National Birthmother's Day. Quite appropriately, it is always celebrated the day before Mother's Day each year. For many of us adoptive mothers, there had to be a birth mother before we could become a mother. This holiday was started in 1990 by a group of birth mothers to educate communities across the country about the profound sacrifices of a birth mother and to make sure these women were not forgotten. For any adoptive mother, like myself, I could never forget this incredible gift and privilege generously given to me by another woman.
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In the world of adoption, the way you say things makes all the difference in how the other person receives it or hears it. When we speak about a woman “giving up her baby for adoption”, it is considered more politically correct to say “making an adoption plan for her child” or “placing a child for adoption”. That being said, adoption is actually really all about “giving” to a child. Maybe the pregnancy was not planned, but a woman can plan the adoption by working through all the options and implications before her child arrives.
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I started looking for an adoption agency and all I knew was that I wanted someone to make me feel like I was an important part of this, I wasn’t just a statistic of teen pregnancy, that I was more than that... because that’s how I felt about myself, and I was not going to let a baby, one of the most beautiful parts of womanhood, to ruin that. I wanted to create an adoption my way, since after all this was my pregnancy.
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I believe that it is very important to honor your child’s birth mother on this day that is so significant for mothers around the world. I am an adoptive mother of twins and Mother’s Day is a very important day for me. I will never forget my first Mother’s day when my daughters were about 10 days old.
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Adoptive parents come from a road of infertility, pregnancy loss, and a series of other circumstances that have lead them to adoption as a way to grow their families. Birth parents walk a similar road of hurt and loss, but it comes from another direction. When an adoption plan is created for an unborn child, these two sides meet in the middle and things often come together like two puzzle pieces.
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Finding out that your girlfriend is pregnant is certainly a scary and confusing time. So many questions cross your mind and fear of the unknown takes over your thoughts. Who do we call? There are so many ways to go, yet so much uncertainty in how to respond to this situation. Here are some things you should know…
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Where do I turn? There are so many options of agencies and attorneys to choose from. How do I make the right choice? … These are the questions that run through the mind of any woman considering placing her baby for adoption.
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I have worked with so many birth moms that knew they wanted to make an open adoption plan but were unsure exactly what that would look like. I have seen birth mothers and adoptive parents unsure of how things would work out yet stepped into this thing called open adoption with the best and most sincere intentions.
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Like many of the adoptive parents we work with, I suffered infertility and failed pregnancies before looking to adoption as a way to become a parent. After working with so many birth moms and adoptive parents, it’s clear to me that both sides are walking a similar path, yet coming from a different direction.
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So many women ask us about open adoption when they contact us. There really is so much to be said regarding openness in an adoption. I will share with you some of my experiences after working with hundreds of birth mothers and adoptive parents.
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Recently in speaking to birth mother C, she made a statement that really stuck with me. She said, “Marilu, I just want to be heard. I am really specific about my adoption plan and I want everyone involved to really listen to me.”
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