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Birth Mothers Amplified Episode 23: Finding Strength from Within
“There are those who viewed my decision to be a birth mother as selfish, but in fact, this journey has been the true definition of selflessness. No longer do I walk this path in shame or embarrassment. For being a...
Birth Mothers Amplified Episode 19: Growth After Placement
Whether we like it or not, we all experience growth along our journeys. Growth can come in many forms and at many different points in our lives. In the adoption community, all members of the adoption triad experience...
Birth Mothers Amplified Episode 14: A Holiday Adoption Panel
This episode of Birth Mothers Amplified was about all the feelings and traditions around holidays, and special occasions relating to the birth mother’s adopted child (for instance, birthdays, Christmas, Thanksgiving...
Christina Gochnauer
Birth Mothers Amplified Episode 12: Communicating Desires and Hopes
The Journey of a Birth Mother For a birth mother, it is extremely vital that she makes her wants and needs known to the agency as well as the family she chooses when she is creating her adoption plan. In episode 12 of...
Jenn Martin-Wright
Birth Mothers Amplified Episode 11: Managing Ever-changing Expectations
First, let me summarize what this episode of Birth Mothers Amplified was about. We got to hear Megan’s story as a birth mother who placed her baby for adoption. She called her mom and they had a family meeting, which...
Birth Mothers Amplified Episode 9: Adoption Uniting Birth and Adoptive Families
Birth Mothers Amplified is an awesome video podcast co-hosted by birth moms Emma and Muthoni. It is made in partnership with the Gladney Center for Adoption and Adoption.com. Emma and Muthoni talk about adoption topics...
Julie Davis
What Is The Right Decision?
You’ve been feeling tired and nauseous lately. Maybe you have swollen and tender breasts and notice you need to urinate more frequently. Your period is late, too. So, you purchase a home pregnancy test. After...
Sierra M. Koester
How Do I Help My Daughter Place Her Baby for Adoption?
At this time, my own daughters are still children. You need to know that I have not helped any of my own daughters place a child for adoption – but I have helped someone else’s daughter on this journey. It was a...
Jamie Giesbrecht
Remembering the Father in Adoption
When my son’s birth mother, J, first contacted us about adopting her child, she was unsure about what the expectant father, S, was thinking and feeling. She had told him her plan to place their son for adoption and she...
Alicia Nelson