Your Step by Step Guide to the
Adoption Process
The adoption services we provide to our expectant mothers and birth parents are 100% free.
Our caring adoption specialists will help you create a custom adoption plan and work with you to provide complete financial, emotional, and legal support both before and after the adoption.
1. Make Contact
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Fill out our Request for Services.
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Provide proof of pregnancy.
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Get connected with one of our caring adoption specialists who can answer all of your questions and provide gentle support.
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Begin prenatal care if you have not already done so.
2. Create a Plan
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With your caring adoption specialist, determine what your needs are. Medical, financial, etc.
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What type of parent(s) are you looking for?
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Do you want an open or closed adoption?
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Review family profiles and choose a family.
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Decide what communication you want with the adoptive parent(s).
3. Finalize your Adoption Plan
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Prepare your hospital plan. You decide who is there, who holds the baby first, how much you spend with the baby, etc.
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Give birth and meet your baby.
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Review your adoption paperwork and ask any remaining questions.
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If adoption remains the right choice for you, sign the legal documents making adoption possible.
4. Post Placement
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Free, post-adoption counseling sessions, if you choose.
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Participate in our post-adoption support group, if you choose.
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If you have an open/semi-open adoption, communication and/or visits will begin.
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Post adoption contact with the adoptive family is decided by you.