By Kelly Cox 3 Things We Learned While Waiting For Our Adopted Child
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage. Remember that old nursery rhyme? I…
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By Leah Outten I Chose Adoption For My Baby, But I Didn’t Let Go
I am often asked, when people find out I am a birth mother, “Why did you decide on adoption?…
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By Adrian Collins 4 Things a Birth Mom Wants Adoptive Families To Know
The minutes on the hospital clock dwindled as I swaddled my infant daughter one last time before she was permanently…
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By Lois Flowers No Matter Life’s Season, God Provides What We Need
When my husband and I adopted our older daughter Lilly 15 years ago, she was nine-months-old and weighed about 17…
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By Natalie Brenner Acknowledging the Loss in Adoption
“Don’t do it! Adoption is the worst!” His voice echoed through my entire body, his words hitting every unprepared…
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I Went In For an Abortion—and Left With a Changed Life
After all these years, my dad still calls me his Butterfly. I was given the name as a young child…
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By Heather Duckworth Adoption Is Love
I pull around in the car line and scan the group of kids for my daughter. Usually, I can…
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By Caroline Saunders The Ache While We Wait to Adopt
There’s a persistent ache, but sometimes I can ignore it. I can turn up the volume of what’s around…
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By Jenny Leboffe Post-Adoption Depression: Coping to Hoping
Strange: bringing a distant dream home in the form of adoption, then one day after a series of bad days,…
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By Marcia Kester Doyle How Being Adopted Made My Husband a Better Father
My husband's earliest memories of his adoptive mother are as blurry as the black and white photos he has taped…
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Adoption Has Made Me a Better Mama
I remember etching our family plans into a napkin at our two-year anniversary dinner. We were eating at Rio in…
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By Shelley Skuster Four Simple Words That Made Me Weep After My Son’s Birth
As quickly as my contractions pierce across my belly, they end. The moan-wrenching pain of childbirth is over, and my…
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