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Adoption Is About Love
Flowers, candy, cards, and other heartfelt expressions are just a few of the many ways couples across the U.S. are celebrating Valentine’s Day this month. Love is no doubt one of the most powerful emotions we experience. That’s why it’s no surprise that love is strongly and abundantly present in ado...
Reuniting With A Lost Adopted Brother
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg is the author of EDEN: A Novel, a story which portrays a woman who introduces the child she gave up for adoption fifty years earlier to her assembled family on the Fourth of July weekend. Below, Jeanne shares her husband's story.
I told my husband that it sounded worrisome...
Inspirational Quotes For Waiting Adoptive Parents
A few weeks ago, I was wondering if I should talk to my husband about changing gears in our adoption journey. Foster care with the hope of adopting was weighing on my mind a lot. The fact that we had been waiting over three years this time around had me wondering what to do and what was meant to be....
Taking Comfort In “What’s Meant to Be”
Anyone who has ever gone through infertility or suffered a miscarriage knows how painful it is when someone says to you, “Maybe it wasn’t meant to be.” When a close friend or family member say this, it elicits all sorts of emotions - and none of them feel good. Worse still is when you are the one wo...
Adoption Is The Best Gift Of All
Remember how you felt at Christmastime as a child? Magic, excitement and wonder surrounded you. You eagerly waited in anticipation for the holiday festivities – joining together with family, sharing a meal, baking cookies, attending church. And, of course, you couldn’t wait for that special gift fro...
Adoption Is Driven by Love
No one can deny that adoption is marked by loss, heartbreak, and grief. However, there's another side that is pretty incredible, and that is the powerful driving force behind it: love.
Love is present throughout the adoption triad, whether you are a birth parent, an adoptive parent, or an adoptee. T...
A Prayer For Birth Parents
Birthmothers are not all the same. The motivation to become a birthmother comes from many different sources. Some choose an adoption plan because they are young and have no means to parent, some have no support from the birthfather, others make the decision to choose adoption with the birthfather. S...
Staying Optimistic While You Try To Adopt
As an adoption counselor and consultant, I have observed the varied roles that optimism plays in adoption. Evidence of optimism—or of its absence—is often clear on a first phone call. There are some people who phone (or email) me, indicating they want to adopt and express excitement and eagerness to...
Effective Adoption Profiles: A Birthmother's Perspective
I think there are hopeful adoptive parents out there that might believe that we birth parents had specific things we desired or didn’t when we were expectant parents considering adoption. I know that I, along with other birth moms that I know, have been asked in the past or even recently what we loo...
After the Connection: Working with an Expectant Mother, Part One
Now that your profile has been selected by an expectant mother considering adoption, I’m certain you’re feeling anxious, excited, and nervous all at once. Your thoughts and emotions are all going in a million different directions and you’ve probably put an immense amount of pressure on yourself befo...
After the Connection: Working with an Expectant Mother, Part Two
In my last article, I discussed some ways you can prepare yourself emotionally for the first meeting with an expectant mom considering adoption. This article will focus on practical issues you’ll want to think about and be prepared to discuss at the actual meeting. It is important to remember that a...
Expressing Love & Support For A Birth Mother From Birth Parents
How can an adoptive family express their love and support for the woman who gave life to their child?
“After watching my child enter the world, I looked over at her (my child’s birthmother). At that very moment, I felt so much love for her. I was keenly aware that she was the reason I was becoming...