Adoption Blog

We see it happen all the time. Prospective adoptive parents will spend hours writing and fine-tuning their adoption profile until they’re finally satisfied with it. Then they’ll post it online, either on a stand-alone platform or on our adoption profiles page, and sit back and wait until a prospective birthmother contacts them. Don’t get us wrong. This strategy often works. But if you really want to boost your odds of grabbing the attention of expectant parents with an adoption plan, you’ll need to go

Creating an adoption profile is one of the least fun steps in the private domestic adoption process. And that’s putting it mildly. Most waiting parents would sooner have root canal than sit down and start theirs. But regardless of what you think of adoption profiles, there’s no questioning their importance. Next to word of mouth, they are the most important outreach tool in your networking arsenal—a potential game changer when it comes to reaching out and connecting with an expectant mother

Choosing an adoptive family for your baby is a key part of the open adoption placement process. But as you go through the profiles of adoptive families, one question that may be nagging at you is, am I doing this for the right reason? Placing a baby for adoption is a personal choice, one that only you can make. Even the most confident expectant mothers struggle with it and undergo periods of intense soul-searching in the weeks and days leading up to placement. That’s perfectly

This guest post is by Barb.  It boggles my mind how often I hear negative things about birth moms. And the things I hear make me mad. An acquaintance mentioned to me that even though he wanted me to fulfill my dream of adopting, he would question the mental state of a birth mom. He said he would be really cautious with anyone willing to “give up their own child.” This comment bothered me on so many levels. What if

The other day we were contacted by a woman with an unplanned pregnancy who was looking at creating an open adoption plan for her baby. Like a lot of women in her situation, she had considered parenting but didn’t think it was the best decision for her child at this stage in her life.  However, she still wanted to be involved in his life, which is why she was weighing the pros and cons of open adoption. From hearing her story, it was clear

This guest post is by Mira G, a hopeful adoptive parent My husband and I arrived at our adoption journey through the twists and turns of infertility.  Once we decided that biology wasn’t a necessity for creating our family, and then decided that pregnancy was also not required for us to happily have a family together.  So we began to move forward with the requirements in Ontario to become Adopt Ready.   We completed our P.R.I.D.E. training, survived our home study, registered

Waiting to be picked by an expectant mother with an adoption plan can do funny things to your head. Suddenly, your whole world revolves around getting “the Call” and finding a match. And the longer you wait, the harder it gets. It’s easy to beat yourself up while you’re in a holding pattern. But that won’t help you get chosen any faster. If anything, it will only make things worse. Here are seven things you need to stop telling yourself while you wait for an expectant mother

Starting a family is one of life’s most important journeys. But when you’re trying to start one through open adoption, you need others to help you along the way. While social workers and licensees can show you how to navigate the process and family members and friends can give you support, there’s another person you need to rely on: an expectant mother who is considering adoption for her baby. But finding her and making a connection can be a challenge since every expectant mother has

When most people think of baby showers, they don’t usually think of adoptive parents. But new adoptive parents aren’t all that different from other new parents. They face many of the same challenges and responsibilities, whether it be around-the-clock diaper changes, midnight feedings, sleepless nights, or just getting through the day in one piece. However, they also have to deal with a myriad of issues unique to adoption ranging from bonding to birthparents. Chances are, they could really use an adoption baby shower!