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As they have mentioned here, there are all forms of openness in open adoption. We went into adoption knowing nothing about openness vs closed and we have two very open adoptions with our daughter's birthfamilies. They are ages 7 and 3 and we just recently had our oldest daughter's birthfamily spend 5 days with us a couple of weeks ago and are going to be spending a week with our youngest daughter's birthfamily next month.
Try to find out what your fears are exactly and replace those fears with love. For when you go into the adoption journey, it should not be made of fears but of love for the child and the family. If you still feel you are not comfortable with a totally open adoption, just make sure you share this with expecting mothers who are searching for a family. They are not birthmothers until they place their child for adoption, until then they are expecting mothers.
If you would ever like to talk, please email or private message me or you can add me to your Instant Messangers on MSN and Yahoo.
Terri
Adoptive mother of 2
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