After deciding to expand their family through adoption, most hopeful adoptive parents begin focusing on financial planning, researching adoption agencies, and learning about open adoption. Since its inception in 2005, Lifetime’s award-winning adoption blog has provided hopeful parents with a wealth of resources covering the adoption process, open adoption, adoptive parenting, financial considerations, transracial adoption, and more.
Adoption has the potential to fulfill your dream of having a family. It is a remarkable journey that can bring the greatest of blessings: a child to call your own. As a hopeful adoptive parent, you have the opportunity to offer a child a warm, loving home.
Exploring our adoption blog for prospective families will help you gain insight into birth parents, understand open adoption expectations, learn about adoption costs, and make the most of your adoption journey. “Your blog has a wealth of information. What a fantastic resource!” says Christina, an adoptive mother of two.
And Kim shares, “All the ladies at Lifetime were wonderful to work with and very supportive during our wait. Their blog had very helpful information about what to expect and how to manage our own expectations. We also learned a lot about how to build relationships with the birth family, especially the birth mom.”
Adoption Blog Garners Awards
Lifetime’s adoption blog has received several awards, including spots in the Top 20 Christian Adoption and Foster Care Blogs and placement in the top 10 of the Top 100 Adoption Blogs list.
We feel honored to have made the cut and be recognized among many other incredible adoption blogs! Lifetime’s adoption blog was selected by content reader Feedspot from thousands of Christian adoption blogs using search and social metrics. According to Feedspot’s criteria, they rank blogs by:
- Google reputation and Google search ranking
- Quality and consistency of posts
- Influence and popularity on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites
- Feedspot’s editorial team and expert review
We strive to educate, inspire, and empower our readers with frequent updates and high-quality information. Our blog contains adoption stories, experiences, and insights from adoptive families living in open adoption. Through the blog, our writers seek to educate, inform, and support families as they consider adoption.
Top Posts From Our Adoption Blog
To celebrate our Christian adoption blog award, we wanted to share our top 10 blog posts of all time:
10. The Adoption Process: Adoption Costs and Requirements
Adopting a child can be a wonderful way to start or grow your family. However, the process can also be quite challenging, involving complex steps, legal requirements, and challenging emotions to navigate. In this guide, we address some common questions about the costs and prerequisites of adoption that we’ve received from families who are contemplating domestic adoption.
9. 10 Tips for Your First Conversation with a Birth Mother
When a birth mother expresses the desire to have an initial conversation with you, you may experience a mix of excitement and nervousness. What should you say? What questions should you ask? How do you know if you’re crossing a line? In our adoption blog, we provide 10 practical tips to help ensure that your first phone call with a birth mother is successful!
8. Creative Adoption Fundraiser Ideas
Many prospective adoptive parents look for financial assistance for adoption and organize adoption fundraisers to help cover their adoption expenses. In this article, we present six innovative adoption fundraiser ideas that have been proven effective!
7. Contact With Birth Parents After Adoption
An open adoption involves an agreement between individuals who have never met until they come together through the miracle of adoption. Before the adoption takes place, adoptive and birth parents collaborate to determine the extent of future contact after the adoption is finalized. Here, we share about Post Adoption Contract Agreements, the benefits of open adoption, and examples of what open adoption looks like in real life.
6. What If She Changes Her Mind About Adoption?
It’s uncommon, but there are instances when a birth parent who has already arranged an adoption might have a change of heart and opt out of the placement. Although failed adoptions are infrequent at Lifetime, this blog explains the reasons why a birth mother might reconsider and what the implications are if she does.
5. What Does an Adoption Home Study Involve?
Prepare for the adoption home study to reduce anxiety and avoid delays in the adoption process. Having a good understanding of the home study process will give you the confidence to approach this phase of your adoption journey. This adoption blog provides detailed information about what is required for the home study.
4. Domestic vs International Adoption: Which is Best for You?
If you’re trying to decide between adopting internationally or domestically, it’s important to know the basics of both types of adoptions. This blog details how international and domestic adoption compare regarding cost, wait times, legal concerns, and the availability of a child’s medical history.
3. Adoption After Infertility: How to Choose Your Path
Adopting after facing failed fertility treatments is a path that many hopeful parents choose. What options are available when you’ve undergone multiple treatments without achieving your goal of starting a family? When is it appropriate to halt fertility treatments and explore alternative paths to parenthood? This blog answers these questions and shares tips on how to know if adoption is the right path for you.
2. How Long Does the Adoption Process Take?
The wait to be chosen by a birth mother can be frustrating when you are eager to grow your family. Although some factors impacting the length of the adoption wait are out of your control, there are many ways you can help speed things along. This blog prepares you for the parts of the adoption process you can control.
1. Adopting a Newborn from the Hospital: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Adopting a newborn from the hospital is usually the most eagerly awaited event in an adoptive family’s journey. In this blog, you will discover what to anticipate and how to get ready for your initial hospital adoption experience.
As you can see, our adoption blog is a wonderful place to start when you’re thinking about domestic infant adoption and don’t know where to start!
Discover how Lifetime can help you adopt a baby! You can get started today by filling out our free online application to adopt.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on August 28, 2018, and has since been updated.
Heidi Keefer is a Content Creator for Lifetime Adoption and has over 15 years of experience in the field of adoption. An author of thousands of articles and social media posts over the years, Heidi enjoys finding new ways to educate and captivate Lifetime’s ever-growing list of subscribers.
Heidi has a keen eye for misplaced apostrophes, comma splices, and well-turned sentences, which she has put to good use as a contributor to Lifetime’s award-winning blogs. She has written and published hundreds of adoption articles which explore the various facets of domestic infant adoption today.
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