NICU stands for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It is a specialized unit in a hospital that provides medical care for premature infants, newborns with health conditions, and those who require close monitoring and support in their first few weeks or months of life. The NICU is staffed with highly trained pediatric doctors, nurses, and healthcare [...]
Whether you're just beginning your adoption journey or well into the process, it's crucial to understand the importance of positive adoption language. Positive adoption language is a term the adoption community uses to describe appropriate, constructive terminology. When discussing adoption, some negative words and phrases should be avoided. Many people don't realize these outdated terms [...]
This past Sunday, June 25, Adoptions From The Heart’s PA, NJ, and DE offices hosted their 33rd Annual Family Picnic! This event brings together staff and families (both domestic and international) to celebrate our families brought together by adoption. The picnic is a fun-filled day where adoptive parents, birth parents, adoptees, and extended family members [...]
Recently, Adoptions From The Heart came across a viral video of a married couple who were victims of an adoption scam. This heartbreaking story sparked a conversation about the importance of us as an agency to speak on why it is often better to go through agencies and what to look out for when choosing [...]
If you or someone you know is either pregnant or recently gave birth, and you are wanting to acquire more information about placing a baby for adoption or making an adoption plan, there are a couple of steps to the adoption process. Not sure where to start? These eight steps below will help you to [...]
Adoptions From the Heart recently sat down with adoptee and adoption social worker Jackie to discuss the evolution of adoption and the trajectory many agencies have witnessed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adoptions From The Heart has always labeled itself as a domestic infant adoption agency. However, over the last few years, we've [...]
Frequently, especially with emergency placements, there's no definite time frame for how long prospective adoptive parents will need to be away from home once they get that call saying an expecting mother has gone into labor. There are many things to consider, like: How far you live from where the mother is giving birth If [...]
There is an abundance of information for birth mothers about open adoption, the process, and the role that they will play. For birth fathers, although they are equally important, it can be harder to find information about the role they play throughout the adoption process and after their child has been adopted. The role of [...]
On February 28th Adoptions From the Heart hosted a virtual birthparent workshop that touched on the topics of Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence. Free for Birth Parents to attend via Zoom, the workshop went over many topics of discussion. These include: Learning how to identify typical characteristics of an abusive relationship. Learning how to [...]
Adoptions From The Heart (AFTH) is proud to announce King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul LLC. as one of our main sponsors of this spring’s Heart to Heart with Adoptees event, which will take place on March 2, 2023, virtually via zoom and Facebook live, from 7 PM – 8:30 PM EST. King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC, [...]
