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How to Make an Adoption Profile Book
Creating an adoption profile book is one of the last things that you will have to do before final approval during the adoption process. An adoption profile book is a collection of text and pictures that represent you and your current family. This is the only thing that a prospective birth mother may see before choosing prospective adoptive families for her child. It can be extremely stressful to try to effectively capture everything about who you are in one book. It’s a lot of pressure! That is why I wanted to develop this step-by-step guide to creating a strong adoption profile book. Before you start writing your adoption profile book:…
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Overcome Infertility | Recognizing the Stages of Grief
To overcome infertility you must first understand grief. During my years of struggling with infertility, I didn’t realize where my thoughts and feelings were coming from. I didn’t realize that I was actively trying to process a loss. I was in the midst of the seven stages of grief and I felt hopeless. You may ask, “How do you grieve something that you never had?” Infertility is tricky. You have feeling and thoughts that you never thought you could or would have. For example, during my struggle with infertility, I remember wishing for a miscarriage…How messed up is that?? Of course, my sane mind now thinks that ‘grieving me’ was…
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The 72 Hour Wait | An Adoptive Parent Prospective
Recollection of the emotions that occur during the difficult 72 hour wait after the birth of an adoption-plan birth.
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Why I Love Open Adoption | Open Adoption Articles
At first I thought I wanted a closed adoption. Now I couldn't imagine our adoptions not being open. I love our open adoptions.
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Adoption | To Tell or Not to Tell: Is NEVER a Question
To tell of not to tell your child that they are adopted is never a question.
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An Adoption Story | The Process
If you haven't been through the adoption process, you are likely unfamiliar with it. I believe that more people would choose an adoption plan if they understood the process. This post is my personal experience with our first adoption.
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What do I call my birth mother?
I am in an open adoption group on Facebook. The other day I was scrolling through the feed and came across a post from one of the members that was an open adoptee. He was concerned with what to call his birth mom.
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You’re more than a “birth mom”
I hate the term "birth mom". I feel that it does not truly represent who these women are. It sounds as if all they did was give birth. However, their impact on/in the child's life did not start nor does it stop at birth.
Motherhood Refined
