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S1E3 Waiting To Adopt During the Holidays
“During the holidays, for me, it was really different each season. Sometimes I really wanted and needed the love and excitement that came from those family gatherings with all the babies everywhere.…
S2E7 Improving Adoptive and Birth Parent Relationships
"The way families approach to children in this space that they are hoping to adopt is often leading with this idea of ownership. And you see that in just language people use... While it feels like it…
S2E6 Supporting Your Spouse & Staying Flexible During The Adoption Wait
“ I think a lot of times without realizing it, adoptive parents start the story from where we (adoptive parents) started our story, but for the adoptee, it starts when they're conceived. And so I…
S2E5 Staying Encouraged When Your Adoption Profile Isn’t Chosen
“You do not give up on parenthood. If this is something you want to do...there are people like us who will help you. We will encourage you. We will read your story and celebrate you...Every day I…
S2E4 Changing the "Lucky Child" Adoption Narrative
"Whether our daughter had stayed with her birth family, whether she ended up with us, whether she ended up with any of the hundreds of other prospective adoptive families that were waiting to adopt…
S2E6 Grieving & Recovering From a Disrupted Adoption
A disrupted adoption is when a waiting adoptive family and an expectant family or a child eligible for adoption are matched, but the adoption is stopped at some point before finalization. Disrupted…
S2E5 How To Empower Yourself While You Wait To Adopt
“We trust the process. We trust the woman who's making this decision. And we don't want to try to control it...There's so much you feel you can control, but, it's a bit of an illusion” – Stephanie…
S2E4 Living Open Adoption Fearlessly & Faithfully
When Kat started the adoption process: “I feared it would confuse my child. I feared that he would love his birth family more than me and not think of me as his mom. I feared that they would be too…
S1E2 Preparing For The Hospital Experience: What Waiting Adoptive Families Need to Know About Creating A Birth Plan
"In that moment I felt like he was not quite mine yet, he was the son of his birth parents. So I didn’t want to burst into a room with a suitcase full of clothes."-- Ashley Mendoza "My experience was…
S1E1 Finding Support & Community While Waiting To Adopt: A Conversation With The Infant Adoption Guide's Tim Elder
“We want the confidence that we can do it and know that it’s going to work out okay. And you don’t know. But, that’s why I strongly encourage community for everybody because those people get you.” –…
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