Hi, Michelle!
I'm excited to hear from someone that their web site actually worked to connect them with the birth mother! And with twins yet! Just what we, (me any way, hubby is a little nervous about it), have been praying for.
Was this a reasonably local match?
Ours is a fairly large metropolitan area with
many library locations. Each library branch has several public computers and if the birth mother doesn't have personal access, she will be able to view our web page this way. I didn't mention it, but I plan to suggest in the ad that it can be viewed on a public library computer if she doesn't have an internet connection.
As to the phone number, we definitely don't want calls until after the birth mother has seen info about us and still wants to talk to us. Our ages will be a big turn off for most and there is no sense in getting our hopes dashed over and over again. I don't mention our ages in the letter, but we would have to have been married practically as babies to still be in our thirties and been married for 27 years!
If she has a strong enough interest in contacting us after seeing our web page, we feel she will be willing to talk to someone at Bethany if e-mailing us is a problem because she doesn't have an e-mail address.
I realize I have created a few problems to just any birth mother being able to contact us... But we want to find the one God would have us match with, and I am expecting Him to over come any obstacle either she or we come up against in making that meeting happen. He is an awesome God and nothing with Him is impossible! Without Him, nothing is possible!