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A Purl Family Adoption Story

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T16:02:35-07:00June 23, 2020|Adoption Perspectives|

When a family first considers adoption, it can be helpful to hear from adoptive families about their experiences to help them determine their best path for their journey. Today on our blog, we are sharing a Q & A with “S”, an adoptive momma who chose Purl to advise her and her husband during their adoption journey and helped them as they adopted their son. This Purl Mama shares her experience adopting with Purl’s guidance and advisement in their adoption, and shares other advice she has for families hoping to add to their family through domestic infant adoption. To learn more, click here.

Children’s Books: Our Propeller for Discussion & Change

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T15:55:15-07:00June 10, 2020|Adoption Education, Hoping to Adopt, Transracial Adoption (Learn)|

Former Purl family, blog contributor and mental health therapist, Ashley, discusses the benefits of sharing multicultural books with young readers as a valuable tool to introduce concepts and ideas that open doors for discussion in our families. Ashley also includes some suggested books to read with your children.

Preparing Older Siblings for a New Baby

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T16:06:56-07:00June 1, 2020|Adoption Education, Adoption Perspectives, Hoping to Adopt|

There is rarely something more anticipated than watching your child respond to their newest little brother or sister. Will they be excited? Will they struggle to communicate feelings of sadness or jealousy? Surely every child responds to becoming an older sibling a little differently: and there are various seasons of adjustment for the child. At first the child may be wary of the new baby, feeling anxious when the baby cries or has constant needs that overlap the older child’s time with mom and dad. With time, consistency and with the younger child’s development, the older sibling’s feelings can decrease in their intensity and when the baby finally offers a first smile at him or her, many of us watch our older children fall in love. Inversely, the older child may be positively charmed at first sight, but with weeks that ware on, reality hits him and halts the lovey-dovey exchanges. Regardless of how those first few months go, there is nothing like siblings developing a life-long bond, no matter how our children come to us. Depending on our children’s ages when they become big brothers or sisters, there are many things parents can do to help with the transition. No matter the child’s age, devoting time and conversations with our children to help them prepare for a new sibling is vital. Click here to read more about preparing your child for a new addition, even if it comes through the more complicated process of adoption.

Featured Family – Collin and Renee

BPetersonDesign2023-06-16T09:14:15-07:00May 28, 2020|We've Adopted!|

We are so excited to introduce you to a beautiful Purl family who resides in California: Collin and Renee! This couple shares one of those rare love stories, where they both knew they had met their future spouse almost the moment they first met. Collin and Renee have been married for ten years and live in a close-knit, family friendly community a short drive to the mountains and the ocean. They’ve talked about and dreamt of adopting since they got married. Click here to learn more about this hopeful adoptive couple through their family profile, and learn how you can contact them directly.

A Purl Family Adoption Story

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T16:08:24-07:00May 20, 2020|Adoption Perspectives|

When a family first considers adoption, it can be helpful to hear from adoptive families about their experiences to help them determine their best path for their journey. Today on our blog, we are sharing a Q & A with “E.C.”, an adoptive momma who chose Purl to advise her and her husband during their adoption journey and helped them as they adopted their daughter. This Purl Mama shares her experience adopting with Purl’s guidance and advisement in their adoption, and shares other advice she has for families hoping to add to their family through domestic infant adoption. To learn more, click here.

Birthday Blues

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T16:11:10-07:00May 12, 2020|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption is Hard, Adoption Perspectives, Domestic infant adoption, Hoping to Adopt, Open Adoption (Learn)|

An adoptive mom shares her reflection on her daughter’s first birthday and her heart for her daughter’s first mother.

Post-Adoption Communication

BPetersonDesign2022-03-31T09:46:18-07:00May 4, 2020|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Domestic infant adoption, Open Adoption (Learn)|

After an adoption, the frequency of communication or openness in your child’s adoption could allow for an increased desire to share videos, pictures and/or your child’s milestones with your child’s birth family. Perhaps you and the birth family have decided not to share phone numbers or email addresses for privacy purposes or other reasons. It can be beneficial to use specific applications or websites for individuals like your child’s birth mother to utilize during a time she chooses, rather than receive a text message during a time she feels unable to emotionally process. Notifications or reminders of the adoption may not be preferred as a text message or email so that is why these other avenues can be resourceful, as they are utilized during times the individual chooses to use the application or visit the network. There are many communication methods that can positively include birth family in your child’s life as he or she grows up; as well as even nurture the relationship between you and your child’s birth parent(s). Here are some recommended applications and a brief description of their services for how they could serve post-adoption communication.

Featured Family – Edison and Kelly

BPetersonDesign2023-06-16T09:19:34-07:00April 30, 2020|We've Adopted!|

We’re so excited to introduce you to our newest home study approved, hopeful adoptive family: Edison and Kelly and their adorable five-year-old son, Lincoln! This couple has an amazing cross-cultural love story that started with a blind date in India and eventually took them to North Carolina! This family is a loving, close knit family who prioritizes love, patience, kindness and spending time together. They believe their family is meant for two children and they are thrilled to start the adoption journey! To learn more about this family through their family profile, or to contact them directly, click here.

Featured Family – Daniel and Scott

BPetersonDesign2023-06-16T09:20:48-07:00April 23, 2020|We've Adopted!|

We are so excited to introduce you to a new home study approved (and certified to adopt) Purl Family, Daniel and Scott! This family lives in Arizona, and they are thrilled to grow their family through adoption. On their first date in 2013, Daniel describes hearing the words, “you’re done,” in his mind. He was “done",” because he knew during that lunch he had found his person in Scott. They were married in front of friends and family in 2017 almost five years to the day from their first date. Today, Daniel and Scott enjoy spending time with their friends and family, working on house projects together, and snuggling with their three dogs to watch their favorite TV shows. Daniel and Scott desire to open their home to their future child, they are ready to hug, to teach, to nurture and to love this little life with all that they are and all that they have. To learn more about Daniel and Scott through their family profile, or to contact them directly, click here.

Infertility Awareness Month

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T16:14:01-07:00April 22, 2020|Infertility|

During Infertility Awareness Month, we share a biological, foster and adoptive mother's struggles with secondary infertility and ultimately domestic infant adoption. Please click here to read more.

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