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Further to yesterday’s post, I thought I’d share a bit more about my worry about our son’s birth mom. Also, please note I may be slightly politically incorrect as I dive into this, but I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone.  Rather I am simply being honest about a transition from some of my initial adoption feelings/fears to my existing real feelings. When we first began investigating adoption to grow our family,… Read More

When we first contemplated open adoption there were a few things that scared the bejeebers out of us.  So today, I thought I’d revisit one of our biggest adoption fears and talk about my thoughts on it now that we are post-placement. The fear was pretty simple – too much contact with birth family.   In fact, this is one of the reasons we chose to do international adoption.  (I say one… Read More