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Hi!
I'm a hopeful adoptive mom. We chose open adoption because we feel it's important for a child to maintain a relationship with his or her birthparents, even if they are unable to parent for any reason.
We were scared of open adoption at first. And now, after a lot of reading, and time on these forums, we're more concerned about not having enough contact with the birthparents that place with us. We're very excited about openness and look forward to sharing special moments with our child's birthparents. We know that nobody else will care the way we do (except the birthparents) about a first word, first step, first tooth, first owie, etc. So we want to share as much as possible with the birthparents who pick us... and at the same time, we don't want to overwhelm them or be overly intrusive in their lives. We will have to see what happens.
:-)
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