Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Law Offices of Diane Michelsen
Giving Your Baby Up for Adoption and the Range of Emotions That Comes with It
Giving your baby up for adoption is not an easy decision. In fact, it will likely be one of the hardest decisions of your life. I’ve worked with many expectant mothers and have witnessed the range of emotions that come with the adoption process. Sadness, guilt, even feeling stupid, are all common feelings. The following are descriptions of the main emotions you might feel when going through this experience and ways on how to work through them. Sadness At the end of your pregnancy, you will have carried your baby for just under a year. During those months, you’ll likely…
What is the cost of adoption from foster care?
How Men And Women Process Emotions Differently
Are women "wired" to be more emotional? Not exactly -- but new research provides more evidence that the male and female brain may have very different way...
4 tips on finding the right adoption & foster care support group for you
Adopting and doing foster care can be lonely in the world-at-large. Very few people know what it’s like to adopt, they don’t know about bonding or attachment issues, they don’t kn…
What It's Really Like to Place Your Baby for Adoption
"I took her in my arms and walked down to where the expectant family sat in the waiting room. The walk seemed to last forever."
How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation
40 Things Your Brain Is Always Telling Your Emotions
"Pull. It. Together!" Find out why the Emotions make all the decisions in Disney•Pixar's Inside Out, now in 3D everywhere.
just not with them. What happens to birth mothers after the adoption hoopla?
“When you lose a family member and bury them, it’s closing a door,” she says. “When you place a child [in an open adoption]... You experience loss all the time.”
"Real" in Adoption and how it Splits our Babies
Remember that Sesame Street segment, “One of these Things is Not Like the Other”? Can you pick which one of the four questions is out of place? And more importantly, why it is the misfit of the bunch? Which ice cream do you love most, Casey — strawberry or chocolate? Which is your favorite sports … Continue reading “Real” in Adoption and how it Splits our Babies →
5 Reasons Why I Placed My Baby for Adoption
When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with baby dolls. I loved taking care of them, changing thei...
How Placing My Baby For Adoption Made Me A Birthmother Advocate
Megan shares her birthmother story and how it made her an advocate for adoption and birthmothers.
How Do Women Feel After Placing Their Baby For Adoption?
Adoption can be a joyous and beautiful process that creates love and family. However, with every adoption and every union, there is also loss, a biologic...
What Placing My Baby For Adoption Taught Me About Life And Love
A birthmother shares some of the lessons in life and love she learned after placing her baby for adoption.
What to Expect at a Hospital With a Newborn Adoption
What to Expect at a Hospital With a Newborn Adoption. Adopting a baby can be joy-filled experience, but it can also be terrifying and will come with challenges that birth parents don't face. If you and your partner are going to the hospital to meet your new little one for the first time, knowing what to expect can help ease the transition from waiting for a baby to cradling your newborn in your arms.
How I’ve Found Healing in My Open Adoption
When I was pregnant and planning to place my son for adoption, I had no idea the emotions I was goin...
What Is A Home Study In An Adoption
When many are in the process of an adoption, they are told they need a home study. Many do not understand what a home study even is and how it works.
How adoption brought joy to these families
How to Handle Adoption Announcements
While adoption announcements can be a great way to notify others of your family’s growth, how should you really handle them? We wanted to give you a few tips on how to include the appropriate information at just the right time.
How Emotion Shapes Decision Making
There is little disagreement that effective decision-making is one of the most important tasks we must master to achieve success in every part of life. If we were to take a survey in the average …
The Top 30 Questions About Adoption
Our adoption expert gathered a list of questions about adoption circumstances that adoptees most want to know about themselves and their birth families.
