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The Beautiful Challenge of Adoption

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T17:01:31-07:00June 25, 2019|Adoption Education, Adoption is Hard, Adoption Perspectives, Domestic infant adoption, Hoping to Adopt, Open Adoption (Learn)|

This blog post is written by a guest blogger and is a perspective we don’t get to hear very often, the perspective of a dad through adoption.

I’ve always had a favorable view of adoption. I have a niece who was adopted by my sister and her husband. Although I’m quite sure there have been tough times, I always saw a well adjusted family with love in their hearts. Because this was my experience, when my wife and I began looking into adoption to grow our family, I was not skeptical. I was completely optimistic.

Immediately upon beginning the adoption process you are presented with life changing questions…

My Journey to An Open Adoption

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T17:02:45-07:00June 7, 2019|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption is Hard, Adoption Perspectives, Hoping to Adopt, Open Adoption (Learn)|

When my husband Ray and I started the adoption process, the thing we were scared about most was “open adoption”. We learned quickly that most domestic adoptions were “open”, but that had many different meanings. We pictured open adoption as a co-parenting situation, and had fears that our child wouldn’t bond with us or feel like we were her “real parents” if we had an open adoption with our child’s birth family (and yes I cringe too that I even wrote “real parent” in my blog as something I thought and possibly even said out loud)! Luckily we learned a lot over the course of our adoption journey.

5 Adoption Myths Debunked

BPetersonDesign2023-07-19T15:58:16-07:00March 28, 2019|Adoption Education, Adoption Process, Domestic infant adoption, Drug/Alcohol Exposure, Funding Your Adoption, Hoping to Adopt, Open Adoption (Learn)|

Are you someone who is considering adoption, but is scared off by the contradictory things you’ve heard about the domestic infant adoption process? Here’s a list of five myths we commonly hear about adoption - debunked.

My Child By Adoption is Not “Lucky”…

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T17:19:18-07:00March 17, 2019|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption Perspectives, Open Adoption (Learn)|

On this St. Patrick’s Day, my beautiful little girl through adoption (who is likely at least some part Irish with her beautiful auburn hair) will dress up in green, put her Shamrock stickers all over our house, and her face is likely to be covered at some point in Mint Chip Ice Cream. However, we will not talk about her having the “Luck of the Irish” because she ended up in our family.

Protecting Your Child’s Adoption Story

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T17:21:50-07:00February 21, 2019|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption Perspectives, Drug/Alcohol Exposure, Open Adoption (Learn)|

When you are an adoptive parent, you are bound to get questions from friends, family and strangers alike about the details of your child’s adoption story, particularly if you have adopted transracially. As a mom of two girls only eight months apart in age (and currently the exact same height), I can’t seem to get out of a public place without questioning stares and at least one person asking me how I managed to get two such adorable, but completely different looking children. I have never had a trip to Costco with the girls without someone asking me where Cora’s adorable auburn curls and gorgeous brown eyes came from.

Reflections of a Birth Mom

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T17:27:32-07:00September 9, 2018|Adoption Education, Adoption Perspectives, Domestic infant adoption, Open Adoption (Learn)|

I missed the boat on motherhood.

What does that mean? It means missed opportunity, lost moments never to be reclaimed, chances I will never have.

Why Hire An Adoption Advisor?

BPetersonDesign2023-07-19T15:09:00-07:00March 22, 2018|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption is Hard, Adoption Outreach, Adoption Process, Adoption Profile, Domestic infant adoption, Drug/Alcohol Exposure, Funding Your Adoption, Hoping to Adopt, Open Adoption (Learn), Transracial Adoption (Learn)|

Adopting a baby is wonderful, awesome, fulfilling experience, but it can also be very HARD! The process itself can be intimidating, and most don’t know where to begin once they make the decision to grow their family through Because of this, we believe that the most efficient, safest and least lonely way to adopt is by utilizing an adoption advisor for your adoption. We hold your hand throughout the adoption process.

A Birth Mother’s Story – Love is a Journey

BPetersonDesign2022-04-01T17:36:27-07:00January 10, 2018|Adoption Education, Adoption is Hard, Adoption Perspectives, Domestic infant adoption, Open Adoption (Learn)|

I thought I had survived my tumultuous teenage years when I graduated from high school, received a scholarship to college, and moved across the country to begin a fresh, new chapter. However, less than six weeks into my first semester, and home for a family visit and a doctor’s appointment to complete my immunizations for school, my life turned upside down.

An Adult Adoptee Shares Her Story

BPetersonDesign2022-03-31T09:40:52-07:00November 14, 2017|Adoption Education, Adoption Perspectives, Open Adoption (Learn)|

Not every adult adoptee feels the same about their adoption, but as an adoptive mother and adoption professional, I love to hear personal accounts of adoption, from every perspective in the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptee). These stories help adoptive parents to raise their children to feel as comfortable and secure as possible in their personal adoption story. Today, an old friend and adult adoptee shares her adoption story. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did!

Gifting the Birth Parents

BPetersonDesign2022-03-15T12:57:53-07:00October 31, 2017|Adoption Education, Adoption Process, Open Adoption (Learn)|

Although there is no tangible gift that can thank a woman enough for bearing a child that she will entrust completely to another, it is understandable that adoptive parents may want to pass forward a token of appreciation and acknowledgment to their child’s birth mother and, in some circumstances, birth father.

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