Choosing Adoption: Taking a Step Back to Consider What You Want.
The day that adoption came into my mind as an option for my daughter’s future, I recall googling, “Adoption agencies near me”. So many links to different agencies popped up, I was overwhelmed by the number of options available. A quick glance at several pages of...
Battling the Grief of Placement & Finding Your Voice
Writing after placement has given me a lot of closure. I didn’t begin writing immediately after my daughter’s adoption took place; I would journal from time to time, but never consistently. For months after resigning my rights to be her mother, I couldn’t write much,...
Sharing My Story: Having a Unique Voice as a Birth Mother and a Woman
Sharing my story of placing my daughter for adoption has been a long journey of understanding why and how I should tell the world of what has happened to me and the choices that I’ve made along the way. I’ve questioned why I need to or would want to tell anyone that...
Making Changes and Facing Fears: Going Back to College While Pregnant
In between being pregnant, choosing adoption and placing my daughter, I still had a life to live regardless of how hopeless I felt. My bills and priorities didn’t just dissipate as I had wished they would, which gave me a reason to keep moving. From my perspective,...