If you are considering making an adoption plan for your unborn baby and doing your research and educating yourself on adoption issues, you are probably getting lost in all the lingo and terms. So I thought, it would be a good idea to do a little series on some of the different adoption terms and lingo that you may be coming across during your reading. Some of these things I may have previously written about, but it’s always good to re-read them or learn more about them and I know we are getting new readers all the time who may not have the time to go through the old posts.... more

Lifemothers is a website that has tons of information for pregnant women considering adoption and birthmothers or “lifemothers” as the site calls them.

Skye Hardwick, birthmother, is the creator of the website Lifemothers. She prefers the term Lifemother over birthmother. As she explains “Lifemoms do more than give birth, we give roots, answers, and love.” You can find a detailed explanation of the term lifemother and why Skye prefers it to birthmother.... more

Insight: Open Adoption Resources is a website and non profit organization run by birthmother Brenda Romanchik.

From their home page:

We are not affiliated with any adoption agency or facilitation service. It is our hope that people at all stages of the adoption process can find the information and support they need to have healthy open adoption relationships.

The Insight website has lots of great resources and information for all members of the adoption triad.... more

Sidelines is a National High Risk Pregnancy Support Network.

I first heard about Sidelines by reading an article in a women’s magazine that featured the organization about two years ago. Having been through two high risk pregnancies myself, I was immediately intrigued.

Sidelines is a national non profit organization that provides support for expectant mothers in high risk families and their families. They typically serve patients who have been ordered on bed rest by setting them up with a partner... more

A great resource for women considering adoption is a short booklet entitled What you Should Know if you are Considering Adoption for your Baby. This booklet was written by my co-blogger Heather. Clicking on the above link will take you to a PDF file containing the booklet but you can also purchase a hard copy for $2.00 on the Concerned United Birthparents website.

The booklet does not sugar coat adoption as others tend to, yet it is a very real look... more

Starting each Wednesday in this New Year, I will feature a different web link. By “web link” I mean that it can be an article, a website, a blog, or just basically anything on the World Wide Web related to adoption or pregnancy. Some of the web links I feature may solely be adoption related while others may be more pregnancy related, but either way as an expectant mother considering adoption, I hope these links will be helpful to you during your pregnancy and as you try to make a decision regarding adoption. If you know of a web link related to adoption or pregnancy that... more

Now that 2006 has come and gone, Baby Center has published their annual Baby Names of the Year list. I always find these lists interesting.

Before I share the list, let me just remind expectant moms who may be making adoption plans that you do have the right to choose a name for your child. I have covered this topic before in past posts that I will provide links to at the bottom of this post.

The list is extensive and includes the top 100 baby names of 2006 for both boy and girl names but I will just share... more

When I started writing about the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting yesterday, I pulled my pregnancy book of the shelf, thinking it was that book, but it wasn’t. It was Your Pregnancy Week by Week. I guess I’m not that great with titles!

A friend gave me Your... more

What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, and Sandee Hathaway is one of those great pregnancy books that is good for just about any pregnant woman, regardless of whether you are making an adoption plan or parenting your first child or fourth. It explains pregnancy and all that goes along with it in general everyday terms that we can all understand.

The information... more

There’s a new article in the About.com’s Adoption section all about adoption agencies. The article is geared towards expectant mothers considering adoption and hopeful adoptive couples each looking for adoption agencies to work with. It contains advice from a birthmother and an adoptive mother. It tells you warning signs to look out for letting you know that a particular agency might not be so good and positive signs that point out... more