A place to begin
What do we need to know about adoption?
Five guided lessons to help you understand the process, ask better questions, and prepare for what comes next.
5 guided lessons
A clear path, one stage at a time.
28 deeper answers
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What happens from matching to placement?
Relationships, the hospital, legal steps, and traveling home.
A moment to make it yours
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Getting started
- What Types of Adoption Are There?
- Which Type of Adoption Is Right for Our Family?
- What is domestic agency adoption, and how does it work?
- Is Domestic Infant Adoption Right for Our Family?
- What Should Adoptive Parents Know About Prenatal Substance Exposure?
- What Is Birth Father Risk in Adoption?
- How Much Does Adoption Through Heart to Heart Adoptions Cost?
Getting approved
Preparing for matching
Matching & placement
- How Does Adoption Matching Work at Heart to Heart Adoptions?
- What Happens After We Are Matched for Adoption?
- How Do We Build a Relationship With the Expectant Mother?
- What Should We Expect When We Meet the Expectant Mother?
- What Should Adoptive Parents Expect on Delivery Day?
- What Are Consent and Relinquishment in Adoption?
- What Rights Does a Birth Mother Have in Adoption?
- What Rights Does the Birth Father Have in Adoption?
- What Does Placement Mean in Adoption?
- What Is ICPC and Why Do Adoptive Families Have to Wait?
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Follow the five main lessons for the course. The deeper answers are there when you want more detail. You can open them without leaving the lesson.
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Heart to Heart Adoptions · Adoptive parent education
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