One of our commitments here at Adoptions From The Heart is to create communities, safe spaces in which expectant parents, adoptive parents, and adoption professionals can come together and share their experiences. It is our belief that every voice in the adoption conversation deserves amplification, that no viewpoint should be silenced and every opinion should be considered.
One of the digital revolution’s greatest achievements was to create a universal forum, the internet, on which anyone, no matter their socioeconomic standing, can be heard. Even so, our personal search for voices has led us to conclude that the expectant parent, the birth mother, is still an underrepresented minority in the digital conversation. In the spirit of the internet’s potential for equal representation, we’d like to highlight our favorite blogs written by and designed to help expectant parents considering adoption.
It’s our hope that these writers can enrich the conversations you have in your own home, and you can in turn join the discussion online.
Needless to say, the opinions expressed in these blogs are their authors’ own and not necessarily endorsed by Adoptions From The Heart.
The Best Blogs For Expectant Parents Considering Adoption
BirthMom Buds
With equal parts inspiration and honesty, BirthMom Buds tackles the process of open adoption from a birthmother’s perspective with heart and candor.
Coley Strickland and LeiLani Wood met each other on an adoption.com forum shortly after placing their babies in open adoptions.
Together, they created BirthMom Buds, an online support forum for women dealing with the many emotions that arise after placement. BirthMom Buds is effectively a sandbox, a place where both birthmothers and expectant parents considering adoption alike can express themselves in any way they choose, from poetry to critiques of the media’s often stilted representation of adoption.
The Happiest Sad
To date, The Happiest Sad is the most comprehensive, intelligent, emotional, and, most importantly, honest account of life as a birthmother that we’ve found.
Begun in 2009, and still regularly updated, The Happiest Sad is the autobiographical record of Jill Elizabeth’s life after placing her daughter, Roo, in an open adoption. It’s often harrowing, always compulsize, beautiful reading. What is most important in Elizabeth’s writing is her bravery and strength. An amazingly inspirational story.
Endure For A Night
Endure For A Night presents the complex situation of a birth mother who has moved far away from her son, Cricket’s, adoptive parents.
Currently parenting Cricket’s full brothers, “Susie Book” provides a meditative account of distance’s effect on the open adoption process and the challenges of addressing the question of a sibling’s adoption with the children she has chosen to parent.
Adoption In The City
Adoption In The City is a frank, hopeful look at the struggles and triumphs of maintaining an open adoption.
Importantly, Adoption In The City‘s author, who chooses to write anonymously, does not solely deal with the story of her son’s adoption, but often looks at the effects of adoption on seemingly unrelated aspects of her personal and social life.
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