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11/21/24
Given a Chance
In 2017, I myself was given a choice...as I held in my hands a VERY unplanned positive pregnancy test. As a professional party girl, I was shaken to my core
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10/03/24
Choose Joy
Twenty three years later, I am still in awe of my open adoption journey. The relationships I have developed and the person I have become because of this adoption journey
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10/02/24
No One Needs to Sit Alone
I was already a single Mother when I found out I was pregnant again. I was in a place of constant survival mode. I’d come home from working two jobs
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08/15/24
A Poem in Honor of Birth Mothers
"Star Power" - A Poem by Tara Meyer Dull Someday I want to tell you about the day anger walked through the door. Stormy steps, jaw clenched. It was the
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06/19/24
Single parenting for 7 weeks reinforced my adoption decision
I placed my daughter (Zoe) for adoption 11 years ago. I was 17 at the time and ready for my senior year in high school, and Zoe’s birth dad was
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06/19/24
Understanding the heart of a birth mother
Last week, we received two open letters from one birth mother (we’ll refer to her as “Mummy”). Mummy relinquished her son Seth when he was 2 1/2 years old. She
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06/19/24
Two birth mothers talk about grief, aftercare and simple ways to support one another
Recently the National Council for Adoption hosted a webinar called "What We Want Adoption Professionals to Know" and invited two birth mothers, Jan and Heather, to participate on the panel. We
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06/19/24
Two of a Kind
In honor of Mother’s Day, here's a story told by one woman who has actually walked in the shoes of birth mothers and adoptive mothers. When faced with the challenges
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06/19/24
To The Moon
Of two things I am certain 1) that my daughter loves me and 2) that I made the right choice. I am a birthfather and 15 years ago I chose
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06/19/24
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. My journey is seventeen years long and counting. Seventeen