Do You Know Your Real Family? Birth Moms, We Want Children to Know You
“Do you know your real family?” At every family Christmas gathering, one of Karla’s cousins would ask her, “Where is your real family? Are they going to send you presents?”…
Six Adoption Fallacies–Birth Mothers Need to Understand
Fallacy Number One: Adoption means I don’t love my baby. Reality: The “unloved” child is such a flawed fallacy. Our experience with hundreds of women at Heart to Heart Adoptions…
Don’t Be An Irrational Adoptive Parent!!
“Adoptive parents are illogical.” Jan had agreed to answer questions at an adoption conference. She represented adults adopted as an infant. Everyone in the room listened as the animated 30-year-old…
Give Up My Baby–No! Place Your Child.
You may have reasons to have considered “giving up my baby.” We HATE the phrase, “give up my baby.” Giving up sounds like defeat. Giving up a baby sounds like…
They Didn’t Hear They Were the Parents
Cellphone service was unreliable. Occasionally there would be dead air as the service dropped, and then the sounds returned, the conversation continuing. Charleen and her husband had been connected with…
Miracles for the Brothers
Spring break for the three boys, ages 11, 9, and 6, was going to include National Parks in Southern Utah. This was a trip the family had planned long before…
Surprise Call Informed Alison She Was a Mom
Two Heart to Heart employees were on the line when Alison picked up her phone. There is a little boy in the NICU needing a family, was the explanation Darla…