What makes a successful adoption profile? It’s a question that all adoptive parents ask themselves, usually just before creating their profile but often afterwards as well. Next to word of mouth, your adoption profile is the most important marketing tool you have to connect with an expectant mother who is facing an unplanned pregnancy and considering adoption for her baby. But with so many profiles on display online and elsewhere, how do you make yours stand out?
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How Our Son’s Birth Parents Answered Our Open Adoption Prayers
This guest post is by Carey Marin, an adoptive mother. We have an open adoption and we have the most open relationship with our son’s birth parents that I’m familiar with. It was actually the only specific request we had while we were praying for our adoption. That we would be able to find a couple that wanted to be as open as we did. God was there and more than answered our prayers.
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A Birth Mother Explains Why She Has “The World’s Best Open Adoption” — And How It Almost Didn’t Happen
When it comes to describing her relationship with her son’s adoptive parents, Renee doesn’t hold anything back. “It’s the world’s best open adoption,” she says proudly. But it nearly didn’t happen for the North Carolina birth mother. After a few really rough days after relinquishing her parental rights, she wrote them to say she was having doubts about her decision. She was thinking of raising her son, Liam, on her own.
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3 Simple Ways To Turn An Adoptive Parent Letter From Good To Great
You’ve spent hours on your adoptive parent letter, pouring your heart and soul into it until everything is just right. The content, the tone, the layout — they couldn’t be better. But months after you’ve posted it online, you’ve gotten only one call — and it was a wrong number. What should you do now? Should you keep waiting and holding out hope that the right expectant mother will eventually come along and contact you?
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How I Made An Open Adoption Plan For My Baby
If Kadie Ballentine has learned anything in life, it’s this: don’t make plans. A few years back her own plans were turned upsidedown when she found herself unexpectedly pregnant. After going back and forth between raising her baby herself or placing him for adoption, she eventually decided on adoption and ended up creating a brand new life plan for herself. I first learned about Kadie’s story about a month ago when she sent me a link to her blog, Letters
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10 Things A Pregnant Woman Considering Adoption Is Looking For In Parents Hoping To Adopt
One of the great things about open adoption if you’re hoping to adopt is that it gives you the chance to do your own networking. The faster you can reach out to a pregnant woman who is considering adoption for her baby and build a relationship with her, the faster you can adopt. But a question that a lot of hopeful adoptive parents have is, what is an expectant mother looking for?
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Why We’re Hoping To Adopt A Baby Through Open Adoption
Lauren and Andy know how fate can bring people together. Even though they grew up only an hour away from each other in Pennsylvania, they didn’t meet until years later while working in North Carolina. Now the couple and their five-year-old daughter, Noelle, are hoping that fate works its magic again and helps them connect with an expectant mother considering open adoption for her baby.
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I Know Open Adoption Isn’t About Giving Up Your Baby But Google Doesn’t
Let’s start off this post a little differently, with a quiz. Complete the following phrase: Open adoption means a) giving up your baby for adoption; or b) placing your baby for adoption If you’ve read my posts, you know where I stand on the issue. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Open adoption isn’t about giving up your baby. But Google, the world’s powerful search engine and the portal that most people use to research and begin
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Trying To Connect With A Prospective Birth Mother? A Birth Mom On The One Thing You Shouldn’t Do
Trying to connect with a prospective birth mother? Wondering what’s the best way to set yourself apart and get matched? If you’re planning to sell yourself, Brittany Hudson has one word of advice: Don’t. She would know. A birth mother with extensive sales and marketing experience, Brittany and I recently exchanged tweets after I posted an interview I did with a hopeful adoptive couple about how they were reaching out to prospective birth parents.
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Why Do Some Adoptive Parents Find An Adoption Match While Others Don’t?
I had some exciting news over the weekend: a couple that I helped re-work their adoption profile announced they had found a match. An expectant mother had connected with them after coming across their letter online. The baby is due this fall, and even though they know the situation could change at any moment, they’re absolutely thrilled, as they should be.