Posts tagged birth mother
Be Open to Open Adoption
Be Open to Open Adoption

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!

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Open AdoptionOur Chosen Childopen adoption, adoptive families, adoptive mother, adoptive father, adoption plan, birth mom, birth mother, birth parents, birth family
Who can I speak with about placing my baby for adoption?
Who can I speak with about placing my baby for adoption?

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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Birth Mother SupportOur Chosen Childadoption, adoption plan, baby for adoption, open adoption, semi-open adoption, birth mother, birth mother support, birth mother counseling, Tallahassee Birth Mom Support, Tallahassee Adoption Agency, birth parents
What does it feel like to place your baby for adoption?
What does it feel like to place your baby for adoption?

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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Adoption StoriesOur Chosen Childadoption plan, adoptive parents, adoptive mother, adoption, adoptive families, baby, adoption story, birth mother, birth mother support
There are never too many people to love a child
There are never too many people to love a child

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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Open AdoptionOur Chosen ChildMy Choice AdoptionsMilton, Florida, birth parents, adoptive parents, birth mother, adoption, open adoption