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Our Second Adoption Story
As the saying goes, no two children are the same. And it is certainly true that no two adoption stories are the same. We waited four months when we welcomed our first daughter home. While it was a...
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Loving My Children’s Birth Mother
Fort Worth Moms Blog contributors, Emily Y and Emma, created their families through adoption. In this post, they share insight into how they speak about and present their children’s birth mothers, not...
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Five Things Down Syndrome Taught My Heart
We are hearing, but are we truly listening? There are many blogs, articles, features, and TV shows that highlight families love of a family member with Down syndrome. Most of these say, without a...
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Longing to Adopt
The summer before my senior year of college, I spent five weeks in Romania serving as an intern with Livada Orphan Care. Livada is a faith-based organization in Allen, Texas with private group homes...
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The Curiosity of a Closed Adoption
A mother bird sat on her egg. The egg jumped. “I must get something for my baby bird to eat,” she said. So away she went. Inside the nest, the egg jumped. It jumped and jumped and jumped. Until . . ....
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I Love My White Skin
Like it was yesterday, I remember walking out of my childhood home one Saturday morning (after a cartoons fest, no doubt), strolling through the car port, and seeing my teenage sister sprawled out...
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Families of Hope: Hope Cottage Pregnancy and Adoption Center {Sponsored}
Since 1918, Hope Cottage has been building strong families through education, counseling, and adoption services, making the agency Dallas’ oldest nonprofit, secular adoption agency and one of United...
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Adoption: Imagining My Beginning
Unlike most children who grow up thumbing through hospital photos and hearing stories about the day they were born, many adoptees know very little, if anything, about their “beginning.” However, I am...
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Adoption: When a Birth Parent Goes into Labor
This post is part of an editorial series, “The Stork Stories,” brought to you by the Fort Worth Moms Blog and Texas Health. We hope these pieces provide you with helpful information, encouragement,...
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