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I typically do not say much on my blog about Baby MPB’s birth mother. Our real life friends and family still like to ask about Baby MPB’s “mom” and I still have to correct them with “birth-mom.”  (I feel as though I’m becoming a bit of broken record).  However, outside of direct questions (to which I respond, she’s fine and leave it at that), I really don’t typically say much about her… 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