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Why Doesn’t Motherhood Feel Natural Yet?
For many, the expectation of parenthood is a movie montage of instant bonding and intuitive caretaking. However, the reality often feels disorienting. You might look at your new baby and feel a sense…
Post-placement for Birth Mothers: So Many Emotions
Choosing adoption is a profound and loving decision, but it's often accompanied by a wide range of intense emotions. If you are a birth parent experiencing feelings of sadness, grief or loss, please…
How Do Adoption Agencies Match Birth Parents With Adoptive Families?
Hopeful Beginnings knows that adoption is a delicate process. For those who have researched or have with domestic infant adoption, the term "matching process" may be familiar. This is the careful and personal…
What Rights Do Birth Parents Have in the Adoption Process?
Considering adoption for your child can bring many questions. You might wonder about your control, available choices and whether your voice will be heard in this deeply personal journey. The good news is,…
What Are the Symptoms of Postpartum Anxiety?
New parenthood is often portrayed as a joyful time, but for many people, it can bring unexpected challenges. Ensuring the mental well-being of new parents is just as important as their physical health.…
How Can Adoptive Families Build Relationships with Birth Families?Â
Adoption joins lives in a profound way, linking adoptive families and birth families through their shared love for a child. At Hopeful Beginnings, we’ve seen how establishing meaningful relationships between these families can…
Can Expectant Parents Choose an Adoptive Family?
Choosing adoption for your child is a profound decision that comes with many complicated emotions. It's a journey filled with love, hope and sometimes, uncertainty. Many expectant parents wonder whether they can choose…
My Journey: From Teenage Pregnancy to Choosing Adoption
At sixteen, a junior in high school, I found myself pregnant. Knowing other teenage girls in school who were pregnant before I was, I would have never dreamed that something like that would…
What I Thought Vs. Reality
Prior to getting pregnant, I believed adoption had this negative connotation. From what I saw in the media, and even within my own family, adoption was a mother abandoning her child and never…
My Adoption Journey: Finding Strength and Lifelong Bonds Through Two Unplanned Pregnancies
I found out I was pregnant in December 2006. I did not know what I had gotten myself into at that point. All I remember is I was scared and didn’t know where…
Birth Mother’s Story
Right before I had my baby, I remember the days when I was walking through the snow with both of my kids, and I had nowhere to go. Now I wanted my baby,…
14 Years Later: My Journey from Adoption to Lifelong Friendship
I came to St. Mary’s 14 years ago when I was pregnant, knowing full well that I was not ready to be a mom just yet. I thought about the pros and cons…
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