Thursday, September 3, 2009

Birth-mother Meeting

Last night we attended a birth-mother meeting at the local LDS Social Services office. We agreed to go speak with them all to share the adoptive parent side of things. Our caseworker said we would be good to illustrate to the mothers that there are good adoptive parents out there. I thought that was a strange twist--would-be adoptive parents always want to know there really are birth mothers out there.

I would not be honest if I did not admit were were a bit disappointed that every single woman there had either just given up a child or had already selected the adoptive parents--not a potential prospect in the bunch--but it was still really nice to just chat with them and get to better see their side of things. We have a really good relationship with Amanda--Abby's birth-mother--but this was another opportunity to see the other side of the coin.

We really do believe that birth-mothers are amazing women.