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"I've seen this done more recently as well and wish that I would have offered that to my children's birth parents. It would be something that I would cherish just as much as they would."

"Desha- I love how personalized all of the gifts were for you. The best kind of gifts! "

"Photos are always a fabulous thing. I once met a lady who had placed over 40 years ago and she talked about how wonderful it was when she met her son and his adoptive parents to see his life through photos and through their eyes. It meant the world…"

"I love this gratitude box with the definition. So so great. "

"Even if it's a closed adoption please think of the birth family and take lots of pictures and date then for when thay do meet again then you all can share the memoreys together"

"Hi Desha, I don't have a current e-mail address for you. We are having BP Support Group Meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wed. Next meeting is Jan. 27th at 6:30pm, please invite other birth mothers you have contact with. Julie Russell "

"I think many adoptions can be through someone you know who knows someone. Our daughter came to us that exact way. I think that is why talking about adoption and your hope to adopt is important because you never know who might know someone. :-) I say…"

"Sarah, I personally have not dealt with the state but have many friends and friends of friends who have and that is completely normal (as unsettling as that may be). I think because their main goal IS reunification, they are totaly turned off by…"

"Our daughter (second adoption) was what our agency called a designated adoption where she found us through a friend of ours who passed our profile along. It was actually an old profile that has been passed through a few different people before it…"

"Love this and wish this program was here in Utah. Especially for our daughter's birth mother's sake sinc eshe was treated so oddly during the entire hospital stay, as were we. Love that story and just shared it on FB."

"Wow. I don't really know your story or how long ago your placement was but it sounds interesting. As far as the adoption being open or closed are you saying that the agreement you thought was open is actually closed? I know for both of our…"

"I received "Dear Birthmother" by Kathleen Sibler from my birthdaughter's parents the day we signed the papers. I am a big book lover and this book just helped a lot, especially at first."

"Being an A mom of two, both with open adoptions (our son, with his birth mother and birth grandparents and our daugher with her birth mother and birth father) I have to say that this is soemthing that infuriates me more than anything...A parents not…"

"i just realized i never said what i was given! for mothers day, still pregnant, i got a photo album to put pics of the baby in, they put in the first pic- one of the ultrasound pictures i had given to them. I thought it was sweet that they…"