A Child Chosen - Perspectives of an Adoptive Parent

September 22nd, 2008

Are you a Writer?

Both The Artist in Me and The Writer in Me are books of motivation, instruction and inspiration that are filled with tips and techniques to help young writers and artists find their inner talents.
The Writer in Me:
This all-in-one creativity kit includes a 96-page full-color book, three types of writing journals, dictionary, poster and a […]

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June 24th, 2008

Moving On

The choices we make in life may not always be the choices we set out to make, nor may they be the choices we want to make.
But ultimately, they are the choices we make and the choices we live with.  After only one infertility treatment my husband and I made a choice to stop treatments. […]

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May 4th, 2008

My Thoughts from Yesterday

I have a post up on My Two Boys that I wrote late last night that I think everyone should read. It really sums up a lot of how I have been feeling lately about AJ, about adoption, about being a mom, about infertility.
Please read. You can comment here. You can comment there. But, please […]

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April 19th, 2008

Grief, Infertility, and Adoption

Some of us adoptive parents (who have experienced infertility and come to adoption because of this) assume that after adopting a child our grief over infertility will diminish because we have a child. However, Faith points out that it is not always the case.
I was surprised to learn that adoption did not take away my […]

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April 18th, 2008

This is Just Sick

I can’t even bring myself to describe what this woman, art major Aliza Shvarts, has done. So, all I will do is link to it. It makes me sick to even think that someone would be as callous and hateful to so something like this…to intentionally do something like this…repeatedly.
Now, it is one thing to […]

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February 26th, 2008

You Can’t Outsmart Grief

Parenting is full of grief.
Adoption, relinquishment, loss, abandonment, neglect, abuse, are full of grief.
Infertility and miscarriage are full of grief.
And no one type of grief can trump the other. 
Tags: , abandonment, abuse, Adoption, biological, birth families, birth-parents, conceive, Family Court, grief, Infertility, Juno, miscarriage, neglect, relinquishment, Russia

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February 22nd, 2008

Adoption; Infertility, Baby Stealing, and the need for Reform

I have been working on this post all day and I have been hesitant to click the publish button because I don’t know how it will be perceived. Words are very unpredictable. But I am taking the chance because I do want my voice to be heard; I just don’t want to be misunderstood.
Adoption has […]

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January 18th, 2008

Would You Have?

I took the quiz today from my post and came to this question; True or false: I’d never consider adoption if it weren’t for my infertility problems.
I can honestly say that if it were not for our infertility issues we would not have considered adoption. However, we would never have it any other way. We […]

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November 25th, 2007

Private Pain

Every Wednesday I get a little bit of reality shoved slammed so hard into my face my stomach lurches. But I can’t help but come back for more every week.
Last year when Grey’s Anatomy sent Addison Montgomery, Kate Walsh, to LA for a field trip (a viewer’s test) they also tested her eggs. With […]

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October 9th, 2007

I Would Die For That

I posted this sometime ago on My Two Boys because it touched me so deeply. Please, take the time to listen. Please take the time to comment because in some way, or another, I know infertility has touch all of us.

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