Birth Parent Blog Archives

Your Adoption Plan: Everything You Need to Know, and Every Choice That’s Yours to Make

An adoption plan is a personalized roadmap you create with your adoption coordinator that outlines all of your wishes...

Finding out you're pregnant when you weren't planning to be can feel overwhelming. One of the first questions that...

If you’re facing an unexpected pregnancy and the baby's father is violent, threatening, or abusive, you are not alone,...

If you’re pregnant and scared right now, please know: your feelings are completely valid, and you don’t have to figure...

A closed adoption is an adoption in which no identifying information is shared between the birth parents and adoptive...

Your child's birthday is a day that carries enormous weight. If you're a birth parent wondering what to do for a...

If you’re pregnant and considering adoption, you and your baby’s father may not see eye-to-eye. Differing...

I recently connected with Mark and Genesis, a warm, adventurous couple in Texas who are hoping to adopt again. Having...

If you're pregnant and wondering whether your baby's father has what it takes, you're asking exactly the right...