Supportive Blogs and Online Resources
If you are considering an adoption plan for your child, here are some other resources you might find helpful:
- BirthmomBuds
(birthmombuds.com) — Provides peer counseling, support, encouragement, and friendship to birth moms as well as pregnant women considering adoption. Also, check out birthmom-buds.blogspot.com
for a blog by BirthmomBuds and by others.
- Adoption Blogs
(adoptionblogs.com) — Blogs on topics such as unplanned pregnancy, open adoption, and birth parent issues.
- Adoption.com
(adoption.com) — Site covers a wide range of adoption topics. There is information for any member of the adoption triad as well as chat rooms, forums, and information about laws.
- Adoption Poetry, a section of Adoption.com (adoption.com/poetry) — Hundreds of poems and writings here, all adoption-related.
- Birthmothers4Adoption
(birthmothers4adoption.blogspot.com) — Lots of supportive blogs and resources from other birth mothers who made adoption plans.
- Insight! Open Adoption Resources and Support
– Articles and information for birth parents participating in open adoptions
- Lifemothers
(lifemothers.tripod.com/copyright.html) — Articles and poetry written by contributing birth moms.
- On Your Feet Foundation
(oyff.org) — Honors the adoption choices of birth parents, fosters birth parent self-sufficiency and provides support/community after placement.
Health and Wellness Resources
While being a birth mother and receiving support for your related issues is important, there may be times in which you need resources that are not related to adoption. Below are a few resources that some women may find helpful.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
(thehotline.org) — 1-800-799-SAFE
- RAINN (Rape Abuse and Incest National Network)
(rainn.org) — 1-800-656-HOPE
- National Council for Suicide Prevention
(thencsp.org) — 1-800-SUICIDE
- Postpartum Support International
(postpartum.net) — 1-800-944-4PPD