“During the holidays, for me, it was really different each season. Sometimes I really wanted and needed the love and excitement that came from those family gatherings with all the babies everywhere. And then other times it was really hard and brought a lot...
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Improving Adoptive and Birth Parent Relationships
"The way families approach to children in this space that they are hoping to adopt is often leading with this idea of ownership. And you see that in just language people use... While it feels like it could just be looked at as semantics, it's really reflec...
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Supporting Your Spouse & Staying Flexible During The Adoption Wait
“ I think a lot of times without realizing it, adoptive parents start the story from where we (adoptive parents) started our story, but for the adoptee, it starts when they're conceived. And so I wanted my daughter in the story to be in her birth mother's...
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Staying Encouraged When Your Adoption Profile Isn’t Chosen
“You do not give up on parenthood. If this is something you want to do...there are people like us who will help you. We will encourage you. We will read your story and celebrate you...Every day I want to build more families. I want to take this financial p...
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Changing the "Lucky Child" Adoption Narrative
"Whether our daughter had stayed with her birth family, whether she ended up with us, whether she ended up with any of the hundreds of other prospective adoptive families that were waiting to adopt at the same time we were, she was always going to be l...
Waiting to adopt can feel lonely and draining. The Adoption Wait podcast offers support, practical advice, and hope through the stories of adoptive parents who have been through it.
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