Birth Parents

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    Meet Abby

    Meet Abby - our next contributor to Being a Birth Mom! We met Abby this summer at a conference in Dallas, TX. After meeting...

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    Still Saying “Still”

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I respond to people when they find out that I’m a birth mother. It’s interesting to...

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  • (un)Wanted

    (un)Wanted

    It takes a lot of humility, sacrifice and courage to choose adoption. A mother’s decision to place for adoption is not easy and...

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    What I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Then

    You can't read an adoption story without a then and now. The world sees an event where the adoption community knows evolution....

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  • A woman in a blue dress walks barefoot through a field of tall grass on a sunny day, with a blurred background of greenery and hills.

    birth PARENTING

    The idea of birth parent seems so weird sometimes. It can make me feel like an alien species that none of the “normal” population...

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    Meet Michelle

    BraveLove is excited to announce the start of something NEW! We are launching a birth mom editorial column called Being a Birth...

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