My daughter was placed with us at 2 months old. Her bmom was 40 when DD was born, and had hidden her pregnancy, and gave birth alone. She initially brought DD to the hospital with the intent of placing her through Safe Haven. Ultimately, she was connected with our agency and DD was placed in [...]
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Is having the extended first family at visits the norm?
We have two adopted children, both are open adoptions. With our first adoption, the birthmom was young and her mom was at all of our meetings. After our son was born and we visited, it was always with our birthmom and her mom, which we expected and were quite comfortable with. We now have a [...]
How do I deal with overbearing grandparents?
Just wanted to get your thoughts on how others would handle this situation. For the past 4 years…been working with the bf and his very controlling/overly aggressive parents. The beginning of the adoption…well let’s just say we got off to a rough start. They threatened us, stalked us….and then we moved to a different state [...]
Birth mom doesn’t want us to have contact with birth dad. Now what?
Our children’s birth mother has an extremely acrimonious relationship with our daughter’s birth father’s family. We actually only learned of it a few months ago after the adoption was finalized and are not certain exactly what has happened and why. But we do now know that the birth father’s mother & sister objected to the [...]
How to I pull back from relationship with grandmother without hurting birth mom?
during the open adoption with my son, we have been helping his bmother find a job, get on her feet etc because shes showed that she is in fact trying.He was removed and her rights terminated. We agreed on 3 visits a year, but we do lots more. The problem now is her mom, she [...]
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