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…
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…
You Need an Adoption Consultant?? They Started With One.
In an earlier post, we discussed Monica and her wonderful, loving experience with Alexis*. Alexis opted to give birth and then trust Monica and her husband to raise the tiny…
First Conversation With a Potential Birth Mother Match
"We had never had a birth mother want to talk to us before," Monica said. "That is the most stressful conversation ever. How do you prepare for it? I'm in…
Adopting Toddlers–Attachment Grew
Guest Blogger--Adoptive Father Adoption has always been something we knew we would pursue as we considered growing our family. Having been adopted by my father as a teen, I knew…
Adoptive Family Loses Baby—What About Bitterness?
On day five, the birth mother "revoked." Leah and Nate had held the child, comforted the baby, fed the baby, and then carefully dressed the infant for the cold weather…