Placing a Child, Page 2

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Journey to Openness!

I am an older birthmother than most. In fact, I feel like a grandmother when I go to some birthmother support groups and meet other birthmothers who are in their teens or early twenties. I ... [more]

A Mother's Job

On Saturday, May 8, I will celebrate my role as a mother and reflect on the life I made for my daughter without me. For I am a birthmother and with other birthmothers and a growing number o... [more]

Mallie, We Love You!

It was her birthday, but she didn't know I was thinking about her. All day long I was imagining what her birthday party was like and how many wonderful presents she was going to get. Someda... [more]

I Love You, Jessica Elizabeth!

In 1981, at the age of 24, I became pregnant. To say that I was scared was the understatement of the year. I was petrified. So petrified that I actually managed to hide it until two weeks b... [more]

Stories Told Through the Eyes of a Birthmother

~Age 21~ She just found out her boyfriend of nine months was seeing someone else. Not only that~ that someone else was pregnant TOO! How dare he! She packed up her things and hit the road.... [more]

Carried

Lily glanced up nervously at the clock on the sea green hospital walls. It was ten after three. She had to be at the adoption agency across town at three thirty. These were her last moments... [more]

I Relinquished then I Kept... The Truth of Choosing

The empty arms have stayed with me for ten years, that moment I left the hospital without my firstborn son changed me forever. The yellow taxicab that waited while I held my newborn daughte... [more]

The Meeting

Two virtual, online friends~ birthmom and adoptive mom to be~ meet for the first time "in the flesh! I expected Michelle to arrive within the hour. Walking through my kitchen, my bare... [more]

Adoption: Right Choice

October 08, 2003 Imagine my son's delivery room. He has just been born, and our family is huddled together with the love and warmth and security that only a mother and father can provide. ... [more]