For some women experiencing a crisis pregnancy, finding options to help, may seem like yet another hurdle to overcome. A woman may have a child they are already parenting, or a soon to be newborn baby, or all of the above, and may be feeling without a ton of options for a variety of reasons. Sometimes a mother may just need a safe place for her child to be cared for, while she locates resources, and fully considers all her parenting options.

There is currently a real need for the kind of place that keeps a child safely cared for, while a mother considers her plans for... more

As I’ve mentioned before, making an informed decision is important and in order to make an informed decision you must educate yourself about parenting and adoption. I’ve already talked about how to educate yourself about adoption, so today we will talk about how to educate yourself about parenting.

1. Seek out other mothers like you. If you will... more

In my last post, I wrote about why you should educate yourself about adoption. Now you are probably wondering how you should go about educating yourself about adoption. Don’t worry; I have some ideas for you.

1. You are already doing this one but read blogs! Continue to read blogs like this one but also read blogs personal blogs written by birthmothers. They give you great insight into the emotional side of adoption from a birthmother’s point of view. You... more

As you consider adoption, it’s important to educate yourself and know the different types of adoptions they are. Some people have different names for them so it can get a little confusing at times but they basically are divided into 3 categories. Each is a broad term but I will do my best to explain them a little bit.

Let’s be backwards and start with closed adoption as it is probably the easiest to define. It is an adoption... more