The adoption process can be a rollercoaster of ups and downs for everyone. Birth mothers often require emotional healing and a compassionate and understanding support network behind them. Adoptive parents need adoption education and emotional support to understand the complexities of raising an adoptee.
As they grow, it’s also critical to provide adoptees with the resources they need to understand their personal adoption experience. When handled correctly by a caring team of adoption professionals, like those at Adoption Angels, everyone can receive the post-adoption support they need.
Supporting Birth Mothers
Post-adoption support is particularly critical for birth mothers. In a recent blog, we addressed some of the questions birth mothers struggle with. She may wonder if she made the right decision for her child or why she feels so incredibly alone. Here’s what Adoption Angels provides:
- Some birth mothers need to deal with the grief and sadness associated with placing their child for adoption. Even though she decides out of love for her child, she still deals with the abrupt separation. Counseling is a lifetime service available to her for as long as she needs it.
- Financial assistance continues for 8 weeks after placement.
- Like many new mothers, birth mothers may suffer from postpartum depression. According to Postpartum Support International, one in five mothers suffers from postpartum depression. The Adoption Angels team is available 24/7 for support, comfort, and guidance.
- Connecting her with birth mother support groups, such as BraveLove, Adoption Savvy, and Building Grace.
- Adoption Angels can also provide her with referrals and resources for public aid, education, scholarships, jobs, and help create a resume.
Supporting Adoptive Parents
Although adoptive parents receive a wish fulfilled with their adopted child, there is still much to learn about raising an adoptee. Here is what Adoption Angels provides for adoptive families:
- Adoptive parent counseling to include a greater understanding of the importance of communication with their child’s first family.
- Adoptive families receive education for dealing with the complexities their adopted child may experience.
- Adoption Angels provides information for community resources, informational meetings, and adoptive parent support groups, such as
Adoption Savvy,
StageWise Parenting, and the Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE).
Supporting an Adoptee
For some adoptees, adoption is merely a step in their life’s story, but for others, the trauma of separation from their birth mothers is life-altering. As an adoptee grows, questions arise at different times in their lives. We encourage parents of adopted children to make adoption a normal part of their conversations from the beginning.
For adoptee support along the way, Adoption Angels recommends the following:
- CASE provides a national directory of adoption-competent professionals for counseling.
- Help for adult adoptees through Adoption Savvy.
- The National Council for Adoption (NCFA) also offers many resources for adoptees.
Adoption Angels is Here for You
Whether you’re an expectant mother or birth mother, an adoptive couple, or an adoptee, we have the resources you need to assist you along your adoption journey. Our team brings over 50 years of combined experience in adoption, and we are ready to serve you.
Please
contact Adoption Angels today. We’re available at any time to counsel, comfort, and answer questions that arise. Your relationship with us is never short-term. How can we assist you?
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