Things To Know About Placing Your Baby Up For Adoption
Getting pregnant unexpectedly or at a time in your life when you're not ready to have a baby can feel like your world has been turned completely upside down. Although you have the option to terminate your pregnancy or keep your baby, adoption is always something that's on the table. By helping a couple expand their family through adoption, you can help create a loving home for your unborn baby. Before you jump into making a life-changing decision like putting your baby up for adoption, however, there are a few different things that you should know.
You Can Work With An Agency
One of the things to know about placing your baby up for adoption is that you have two choices on how to go through with it: you can either work with an agency or you can do it independently. If you work with an adoption agency, they can help place your baby with a family a lot easier because they have access to a large database of families who are looking to adopt. Also, they will typically have a legal team that will be there to represent you and your needs.
When you work all by yourself, you will be responsible for finding your own attorney and a family. If you have a church that you belong to or if you are part of a large community, then both of these things might not be that hard to come by.
It's Your Choice
The choice to place your baby up for adoption is 100% your choice, and it isn't something that you should feel pressured into. If you decide last minute that you don't want to place your baby up for adoption, you have the legal right to keep it and parent it. One of the benefits of working with an adoption agency is they typically give birth mother's access to services like counseling to help you work all of the emotions that you may be feeling during the entire process.
You Can Still See the Baby
There are two types of adoptions: open and closed adoption. An open adoption means that you will work with the adoptive parents to make a plan on times you can see the baby and they can send you pictures. This is a good choice for some birth mothers because it still gives you the opportunity to have a relationship with your child without parenting.
If it is too emotional for you to have an open adoption, then it's your right to have a closed one, which mean that you and the parents won't' have a relationship, and you won't have a relationship with the baby. Whichever decision you decide on is the right one for you.
To learn more, reach out to an adoption agency near you.
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