If you are considering placing your baby or child for adoption, it is important that you start off by speaking to a social worker, adoption agency, or other adoption professional. It is important that you know your rights as a birth mother or birth father and that as a birth parent, you are making the most informed decision for your child.
Making an Adoption Plan and finding Adoptive Parents
Adoption professionals can walk you through every step of your adoption journey and help you to consider all of your options. If you are considering placement with a family member to searching for adoptive parents, it’s important that someone can explain to you your rights, what might be best for you with your particular needs and situation, and how you can best provide the future that you are seeking for your child. You can learn more about the openness of adoption at these meetings and consider if you want an open adoption. Your child is the greatest gift another family can receive, but knowing all of your options from a licensed professional is important. You shouldn’t allow others to persuade you either way, particularly without knowing what options are available to you.
Do all of Your Research and Take Time to Decide
Adoption agencies like Adoption Choice, Inc can provide you with resources (including their blog) to help you understand the adoption process, your next steps, and things to consider. You have time to make this decision, so take it. Feel free to ask questions and find a plan that makes you comfortable. (Though you may be worried about birth parents, etc. this is your time to consider how you want this to go and what you hope will happen in the future.
Adoption: An Act of Love and Hope
There are many reasons that a birth parent would be considering creating an adoption plan for their child, but all stem from the same feeling of loving someone so much unconditionally that you want what is ultimately best for them instead of what you may feel emotionally is best for you. Though some people say otherwise, no one who is a part of the adoption community feels any different. We all understand that our child’s first parents loved them so very much and it is something I personally tell my daughter all of the time. It was evident to me from the first time I heard from my daughter’s birth mother that she made a difficult choice because she loved her child very much. Adoptive parents take this hope and faith that you have placed in them to heart and we do our best to provide everything for your child that you had hoped that we would.
For more information about adoption and what your next steps are as a birth parent, please schedule a time to speak to an adoption professional to help you decide what is best for you and your child. .
This is an act of unconditional love.