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I wont lie, when we first started the adoption process, the idea of entering into an open adoption petrified me. I’ve often heard that open adoptions are hardest (in the long run) for the adoptive parents in large part because they are “sharing” the child with the birth mom/family. Unlike back in the day when adoption were closed and there was no contact and so the “only” parents were the adoptive parents…. Read More
Following up on my posts last week on the key adoption choices we’ve made, the last significant adoption decision we had to make was: Infant vs Older Child For us, this was a relatively easy decision. In fact, we didn’t even do any specific academic research on infant adoption. First, we knew we wanted to do open adoption, and in almost all circumstances open adoption is of an infant. Second, we knew… Read More
My Perfect Breakdown 