Tag: adoption

How to locate a Child for Adoption

The days of orphanage- where babies kept on waiting for being adopted- have not existed in the United States for six-seven decades. Now a days, most adoptive parents locate a baby for adoption by meeting and being selected by a birth mother, usually while she is in the latter stage...

Fostering to Adopt: What It's Really Like

Adoption By Jean Meriam, DivineCaroline Maybe I am luckier than most parents waiting to adopt. My little girl, a beautiful and adventurous two-year-old, lives in my home already and has been since she came to us as a foster child at three months old. For the past twenty-three months, I have...

The freak-factor of secondary infertility

Not long after my daughter was born, I met two ladies in my neighborhood for coffee. All three of us had just delivered baby girls, but I was the only first-time Mommy in the group. My husband had taken two-weeks of paternity leave but once that ended, I was home...

Adopting after 40

Adopt40 When our daughter was a year old, my husband and I decided to start trying for another child. Getting pregnant the first time, even at age 41, had been simple. We had no reason to believe the second time around would be anything but a breeze. Instead, I'd get pregnant...