Here’s to Your Healthy Adoption!
Here’s to Your Healthy Adoption! Adoption is love. Adoption is beautiful. Adoption is also stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. For a healthy adoption journey, hopeful adoptive parents must begin the process with a proper level of expectation and maintain that until the day they bring their child home. Never compare your adoption to […]
How to Make an Open Adoption Work
How to Make an Open Adoption Work During Pregnancy and After Placement The words “open adoption” bring many thoughts to mind. Some imagine an experience where the birth mother remains heavily involved in raising her child through the adoptive family. Others may visualize a yearly exchange of photos and updates. The truth is, each open […]
How Adoptive Parents Can Overcome Challenges
How Adoptive Parents Can Overcome Challenges A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, caused some concern about a further decrease in the birth rate after top news sources cited statements such as “sperm counts have dropped almost 60% […]
Helpful Info If You Are Pregnant and Considering Adoption
Why choosing adoption at any stage of your pregnancy is a loving choice for you and your baby. Many women who are pregnant and considering adoption often feel they have to make a decision alone but nothing could be further from the truth. Trusted adoption professionals, like those at Adoptions First, provide private and free […]
Choosing the Parents for My Baby
Choosing the Parents for My Baby When I knew that I was going to place my baby for adoption, I wanted to find the best parents I could for my child. That is one of the most important parts of the adoption experience that I had with Adoptions First. These are the people that will […]
Five Things Adoptees Wish Their Parents Knew
Five Things Adoptees Wish Their Parents Knew 1. Speak about “The Way You Became A Family” with pride. Start conversations about it and embrace your story. Your child will pick up subtle messages such as your tone of voice, confidence, and your non-verbal clues about how you feel about their adoption. You want them to […]