Eight Ways to Find the Perfect Family for Your Baby
When searching for a family to adopt your baby, it's important to consider several factors to ensure a suitable and loving home for your child. Here are some key aspects…
Birth Mother Bonds With Her Baby in the NICU–Is This Wise?
LaKisha is small, still in high school, and incredibly strong. Her infant is small, premature, and incredibly strong. LaKisha and her baby are bonded. Bonded genetically. Bonded by seven months…
Four Warning Signs You Won’t Have Connection at Christmas
Many birth mothers want an open adoption. They want Christmas contact as well as other contacts during the year. If you have decided you want an open adoption, please continue…
Six Adoption Fallacies–Birth Mothers Need to Understand
Fallacy Number One: Adoption means I don’t love my baby. Reality: The “unloved” child is such a flawed fallacy. Our experience with hundreds of women at Heart to Heart Adoptions…
Give Up Your Baby–No! Place Your Child.
You may have reasons to have considered “giving up your baby.”We HATE the phrase, “giving up your baby.”Giving up sounds like defeat. Giving up a baby sounds like walking away…
Add the Option of an Open Adoption to the Road You Travel
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.Those are the first two lines in "The Road Not Taken," a well-known poem by Robert Frost.As a…
Pregnant Women Should Feel Empowered
Today is the day you should feel empowered to make a decision that will work best for you. At Heart, to Heart, we strive to support and empower pregnant women…
A Conversation After Placing Two Children
“Adoption is a relationship of love not seen anywhere else.” Greg* used a calloused hand to awkwardly rub tears from a sun-browned cheek. Greg had supported Carla as she placed…
What Happens When the Birth Father Opposes Adoption?
“Adoption is the best for my baby, but the father said he won’t sign adoption papers.” This situation is not an anomaly. There are many reasons for birth fathers to…
Adoptive Family Loses Baby—What About Bitterness?
On day five, the birth mother "revoked." Leah and Nate had held the child, comforted the baby, fed the baby, and then carefully dressed the infant for the cold weather…