“Am I going to have anything in common with them? What if they judge me? What if I can’t think of anything to say?”
These are only a few of the questions that you might ask yourself before you are planning to meet your chosen adoptive parents for the first time. The experience will feel like an (almost) blind first date.
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I couldn’t believe I was pregnant again. I was only 23 and already had two young children, so I was overwhelmed at the thought of having another baby. Even though I was overwhelmed, my first thought was that I could do it; I could parent this baby myself. However, the more I thought about it,
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Below is a beautiful letter one of our birth mothers wrote to her son that she created an adoption plan for last year. The adoptive couple has it with his many treasured things and plans to share it with him as soon as he’s older.
Dear son,
I am sorry for making this difficult decision.
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I never imagined that I would be in the situation that I would even have to consider placing my child up for adoption. However, God had a different plan for me, my one-year-old son, and my unborn child.
Shortly after moving my one-year-old son and I back home from living with his father,
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My child told me she’s pregnant…what happens next?
The first few days after hearing our daughter tell us she was pregnant were some of the hardest days of our lives. We had all our family over and just cried together. My husband and I couldn’t even talk about it for a couple of weeks. We were devastated,
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