Birth Parents After Adoption
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- "Be My Baby"
- "We Need to Talk."
- 7 Steps to Emotional Maturity
- A Birthmother's Book of Poetry
- A Birthmother's Perspective
- A Birthmother's View of Adoption: Suggestions for Reform
- A Child's Story
- A Duck Story
- A Gift
- A Mother Somewhere
- Achieving Understanding
- Adoption and Loss:
- Adoption Secrets
- Adoption: Right Choice
- An Adoption Angel
- Before It's Too Late
- Birth Fathers Often Left Out of Process
- Birth Grandparents: What is Your Role?
- Birth Mom Emerges From Her Shell
- Birth Mothers . . . Remember Where This Starts!
- Birth Parent Loss and Grief
- Birth Parent(s): Selecting an Adoptive Couple
- Birthfathers and Miracles
- Birthmother Day
- Birthmother's Day
- Birthmother: What's in a Name?
- Breaking Birth Mother Myths: One
- By the Grace of God
- Carried
- Choose
- Christmas Doll
- Dear Andy
- Ellen's Story by her Birthfather and Adoptive Dad
- Every Christmas
- Expression
- Expressions of the Heart -
- First Mother
- Five Comments a Birthmother Does Want to Hear
- Five Comments NOT to Say to a Birthmom
- For Birth Mothers Every Where
- Forever Yours
- From Singing to Signing
- Generational Rivalry
- Gratitude
- Grief
- Grief and Disenfranchised Grief
- Happiness After Placement?
- Has Society Again Prevailed?
- Honoring Veteran Birthmothers
- I Am A Birth Mother
- I Forgive You
- I Have Always Loved You
- I Love You, Jessica Elizabeth!
- I Relinquished then I Kept... The Truth of Choosing
- I Still Love Them
- I Understand
- In The Garden of Good and Evil
- In The Storm
- Januray 6th
- Jason's Story
- Journey to the Valley
- Journey to Understanding
- Just Don't Get It
- Katey's Story
- Left Unspoken
- Living Through the Impact: Voicing Our Needs
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
- Lost for Words
- Love and Fear
- Mallie, We Love You!
- Mary
- Mary Beth
- Maybe There's Still Hope
- My Baby, Your Baby
- My Child, Their Child
- My Christmas Miracle
- My Son's Mom
- No One Told Me
- No Parent Should Have to Go Through This
- NSW Parliamentary Inquiry
- On My Way
- Open Adoption
- Orphans and Warriors: The Journey of the Adopted Heart
- Our Child
- Out of the Shadows, Into Our Lives
- Overgrown Bangs
- Pains of the Past
- Post-Adoption Reflections
- Pray For Us
- Precious Gift
- Presentation on "Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief"
- Pretty Ribbons
- Real and Natural Mothers' Reflections on Birth- and Adoptive-Mothering
- Replacing Emily
- Sands of Time
- Saving Love: A Sisters Story
- Self Portrait
- Shame
- Silent Voices Heard Impact of the Birthmother's Experience Then and Now
- Skye's Corner
- Society's Tailspin
- Stories Told Through the Eyes of a Birthmother
- Susan's Reunion
- That Which Makes Us Real
- The Bias Against Birth Mothers
- The Burden Of Knowing
- The Commitment
- The Day I Threw My Guilt Away
- The Day That Was Almost Stolen
- The Family Portrait
- The Greatest Gift of All
- The Hardest Thing I Have Ever Done
- The Meeting
- The Men We Know
- The Mother of My Son
- The Opposite of Lost is Found
- The Path to Motherhood
- The Ramblings Of A Mother
- The Right Thing
- The Words We Use
- They Owe Me Nothing
- Things that are NOT to be Said to Adoptees
- To "Anthony Brent" With Love
- To Be a Birthmother
- To Judge Without Knowing
- To My Daughter's Mother
- True Love
- Two Different Kinds of Love
- Two Sides to a Coin & Two Viewpoints in Adoption
- UnBroken
- Voluntary Relinquishment:
- Was There a Kitten?
- What Kind of Relationship Should We Have with Our Birthmother?
- What's the Matter with Kids These Days?
- Where I Belong
- Who Can You Trust
- Why I Love My Daughter's Mother
- Will She Ever Love Me?
- Younger Days
"Be My Baby"
A brief review of Gail Kinn's book: Be My Baby.... [more]
"We Need to Talk."
Author tells story of a birthmother deciding to tell the birthfather.... [more]
7 Steps to Emotional Maturity
As adults, it is important to get past several childish ways of thinking and/or behaving. Holding on to several of these ways of seeing could eventually destroy rather than build a person.... [more]
A Birthmother's Book of Poetry
A collection of poems written by a birthmother about the daughter she placed for adoption.... [more]
A Birthmother's Perspective
A birth mother shares her concern for her daughter as others mourn the loss of loved ones due to the tragedy of September 11, 2001.... [more]
A Birthmother's View of Adoption: Suggestions for Reform
A birthmother discusses the prejudices directed toward birthmothers and the provides suggestions for reform.... [more]
A Child's Story
A birthmother writes of the choice to place her child for adoption and the emotions that followed.... [more]
A Duck Story
A story about a duck that is a metaphor for human beings.... [more]
A Gift
Short narrative about an adoptive couple's children and their birthparents.... [more]
A Mother Somewhere
A poem written by a birthmother about her questions regarding the adoptive mother of the daughter she placed for adoption... [more]
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