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Just Add Baby...Someday: Nesting During the Wait wp.me/p2b7F2-1z2

Just Add Baby…Someday: Nesting During the Wait

“Something about the preparation process, the getting-everything-ready-for-baby projects – nesting, seems to be the most used way of putting it – is like aloe on sunburned skin. It makes the …

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Sharing: How Much is Too Much in #Adoption? wp.me/p2b7F2-1yP

Sharing: How Much is Too Much?

Saying, “That’s our family’s story,” to curious people is not lying. It’s protecting.

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New Open #Adoption Bloggers - January 2014 wp.me/p2b7F2-1yq

New Open Adoption Bloggers – January 2014

A round-up of the latest blogs to join the OAB blogroll

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When the Days Feel Darkest: Waiting, and Wrestling with Fear wp.me/p2b7F2-1yA #adoption

When the Days Feel Darkest: Waiting, and Wrestling with Fear

For some reason, our road to become parents through open adoption has turned me, some days, into a bottomless pit of need for encouragement. Generally speaking, I am not a needy person. I usually h…

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"Kirstie": A Shallow Take on #Adoption wp.me/p2b7F2-1yg

“Kirstie”: A Shallow Take on Adoption

A show about reunion tries to find humor on the back of ridiculous stereotypes

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"Deserving" by SocialWrkr24/7 wp.me/p2b7F2-1y9 #adoption #fostercare

Deserving

Should post-adoption contact be a “reward” for good behavior on a biological parent’s part in adoption from foster care?

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Best of Open Adoption Blogs '13: Submissions due Jan. 2 wp.me/p2b7F2-1xX

Best of Open Adoption Blogs ’13: Submissions due Jan. 2

It’s time to get those nominations in for the annual Best of Open Adoption Blogs list! Use the online form to make your submissions. The list will be posted on January 3. I’ll continue …

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"This Is Why" by @KMNielsenMSW wp.me/p2b7F2-1xM #adoption #openadoption

This Is Why

Why open adoption? Often this is something others ask us. Sometimes out of curiosity and sometimes because they too will be setting out on an adoption journey. But sometimes it not someone else at …

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An Opportune Moment: Working on Mindfulness During the Great Wait wp.me/p2b7F2-1xq #adoption

An Opportune Moment: Working on Mindfulness During the Great Wait

It’s no big secret among those who know me best that I have a hard time with things that are out of my control. I’m not great with the great unknown that is this weird space in between all the gett…

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New at OpenAdoptionBloggers.com: "A Single Gift" wp.me/p2b7F2-1xh
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It can be later wp.me/p2b7F2-1xb

It Can Be Later

“Mommy” my oldest says to me one evening after we finished her bedtime story. “Mommy, I want to see Mommy Z. When can she come here to our house?”

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Separating Selves wp.me/p2b7F2-1xd

Separating Selves

When the phone rang last week, my heart sped up when I saw it was my agency calling. I answered and it was the placement coordinator asking if I would take placement of two children – ages 5 …

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Announcing Best of Open #Adoption Blogs 2013: Make your nominations now! wp.me/p2b7F2-1w8

Announcing Best of Open Adoption Blogs 2013

Remember these? In 2011, for the first time, we collected our most powerful, intriguing, moving, thought-provoking, and just plain well-written pieces about open adoption from the year in one place…

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"'Philomena' Finds Forgiveness"by @Racilous wp.me/p2b7F2-1wW

“Philomena” Finds Forgiveness

[This post contains spoilers for the movie Philomena.] From the moment I saw my first preview of Philomena, I knew this would be a movie that hit close to many of those in the world of adoption. Th…

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"Open #Adoption: In Good Times and Bad" by @KMNielsenMSWhttp://wp.me/p2b7F2-1wP
New Open Adoption Bloggers - November 2013 wp.me/p2b7F2-1uV

New Open Adoption Bloggers – November 2013

The open adoption bloggers list grows every month and sometimes additions get lost in the shuffle. Hopefully these round-ups of the new blogs will help folks connect. Here are the blogs added to th…

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Adoption Blogger Interview Project-Group #3 wp.me/p2b7F2-1tC

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"Thankful for Books, The Internet and Openness" wp.me/p2b7F2-1wl #adoption

Thankful for Books, The Internet and Openness

November means lots of things. Up north where I live it’s time for snow (although we’re still waiting to see white stuff…). It’s report card time for my fourth grader. And i…

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#Adoption Blogger Interview Project - Group #2 wp.me/p2b7F2-1tA #ABIP

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