Birth Mother Counseling

Our birth mother counselors understand that this is an emotional time for you and your family and want to help you through this process in a manner most comfortable for you.

Please call us or email us, and we will make an appointment in our office or someplace comfortable for you.

We will ask you to complete a general information form on you, then a medical release form and background questions regarding you and your family medical history. We also ask some questions regarding your social history, such as favorite subjects in school, your talents and hobbies.

At this time you will let us know what you are looking for in an adoptive family and select an adoptive couple from our waiting family profiles. Before delivery you will also discuss your “hospital plan” with your worker. This is sent to the hoospital social worker. Making these decisions ahead of time relieves you of last minute stress. Of course the decisions are flexible and your own. These decisions regard the presence of the adoptive family in th delivery room, at the hospital, taking picture, seeing the baby and holding the baby.

Once you select your adoptive family your social worker will help you decide on whether to meet the family or talk to them on the telephone. You will also decide on the amount of contact after the child is placed.

At discharge from the hospital you will be asked to sign papers to allow the agency to take physical custody of the baby. The agency will place the baby directly with the family you have selected or in foster care if you need more time to make an informed decision.

There is no right way or wrong way to handle your adoption plan. We want to do what will make you the most comfortable. The decisions will be part of your counseling and before you are in labor. Remember that although a plan is in place it is flexible.