How Birth Moms Can Cope with Baby Showers

How Birth Moms Can Cope with Baby Showers Attending a baby shower can be a painful reminder of a major loss in your life if you happen to be a birth mother. Unfortunately, the mirth that surrounds a new little life is difficult to avoid forever. You will eventually be invited to attend another baby…

How to Find a New Normal After Giving Birth

How to Find a New Normal After Giving Birth Are you worried about what life will look like after your child is officially placed for adoption? Maybe you have already given birth to your child and are having a difficult time finding a new routine and sense of normalcy in your life. After all, you…

5 Ways to Prepare for A Failed Match

5 Ways to Prepare for A Failed Match There are no guarantees when it comes to adopting a child. The road to adoption can be quick and easy or it can be long and hard. So many factors have to play out in order for a child to finally become your own. As a hopeful…

What to Know When Adopting a Child of a Different Race

What to Know When Adopting a Child of a Different Race When you become an adoptive parent, you may not always be placed with a child who looks similar to you or your family. A transracial adoption occurs when a child is placed with a family of a different race or culture than their own….

How to Make a Lifebook for Your Child

How to Make a Lifebook for Your Child One of the biggest fears that a birth mother may have is whether her children will have questions about her as they are growing up. Many adoptees want to know where they came from, and they crave information about their biological families as they grow older. Particularly…

ICPC Florida Survival Guide

ICPC Florida Survival Guide Congratulations! You have left the hospital or agency with your new, sweet baby. You may be feeling a lot of emotions right now. Excited. Happy. In love. Exhausted…. Maybe even home sick. If you live out of state and you are traveling to Florida to adopt, you need to be ready…