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If you are considering adoption for your child, we would love to sit down and talk with you. You need to feel comfortable with us. Our birth mother advocate will meet with you weekly or bi-weekly and also work through issues with any member of your family. Once adoption has been decided, several steps need to be completed.
- Both birth parents need to fill out a medical history form. We will provide this form.
- Once the background form is completed, birth parents need to begin choosing a family for their child. Profiles of families that already have homestudies and have completed the training required by our agency will be given to the birth mother. She may share these profiles with the birth father or any other family member. Once she has chosen a family, an interview will be arranged if the birth mother wishes.
- A meeting with our attorney will be arranged so the birth family is well acquainted with the legal steps connected to the adoption process.
- After the birth parents have chosen a family, they need to work on the Communication Agreement. The Communication Agreement is a document that helps birth parents and adoptive parents structure their relationship. It covers how much time they will spend together before the birth of the baby, in the hospital, and after the baby is with the adoptive parents. Birth parents and adoptive parents can spend as much time together as they choose.
- When the baby is born, birth parents can spend as much time as they want or need to with their baby. Most often, the adoptive parents take the baby home from the hospital.
- After the adoption is completed, birth parents, adoptive parents and the child are able to maintain a relationship as agreed upon in the Communication Agreement.
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