Category: Birth Mother

“I loved him enough to give him life. But I had to love him, even more, to give him a life.” That is the response I give when I am

As humans we’re accustomed to having expectations. We expect drivers to stay in their lane. We expect stores to stay open until they say they are going to. We like to

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

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 think about my natural response because

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

You can't read an adoption story without a then and now. The world sees an event where the adoption community knows evolution. My journey is seventeen years long and counting. Seventeen

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

BraveLove is excited to announce the start of something NEW! We are launching a birth mom editorial column called Being a Birth Mom - a special space for birth moms from