Many adoptive couples choose to celebrate their child's life two days of the year. An adopted child has a celebration for the day they came into this world AND the day they came into their adoptive family. Celebrate Zola’s Gotcha Day with her!
Forever Bound Adoption asked several birth parents to share what they wish they had been taught from their agency when placing a baby for adoption. Forever Bound hopes to fill in the gaps and educate birth parents about a wide variety of topics. Forever Bound put together the most common questions asked by birth parents and are now asking for your advice. A birth mother who
In this 1 minute video Kristie shares the hard times and the joy of her journey in adoption. This video is titled 'A Changed Life'. Isn't it interesting that when our lives change it usually comes from a challenge and a joy?
“Thank you doesn’t seem adequate to express my love for you and the decision you made for me twenty-two years ago”… These were the words I wrote as I finished my very first letter to my birth mom. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about my hero that sacrificed so much so that I could have more. In 1988 my birth
What does being a birth mother mean to me? WOW!! I will try to put my feelings into words best as possible. I am the luckiest birth mother in the world. I never knew the hardest thing I've done in my life (which was to place my little girl 3 1/2 years ago) could have been the BEST thing that I've EVER done. She has
I was talking to my now mother in law about my adoption (which is really awkward for her) and trying to help her understand a little of what I had gone through and how wonderful it was for me. My mother in law is very loving and kind but she had never known anyone personally to have been on the “giving” end of the process.
My husband takes classes at the local University where he gets to know many walks of life. The other day he came home and told me about a conversation of which he was part. He told me of an early thirties woman who was married with two children. She was telling her classmates that she just found out she was pregnant and
As a pregnant teenager a huge responsibility was placed on Tamra’s shoulders. She understands the struggles of birth mothers and recognizes the help Forever Bound Adoption offers.