[Lewey]

Ladies;

As a birthmother form the early 80's I feel that I don't really fit into all the birthmother catagories, not that I need too, but I became a birthmother just after the secrecy of the 50's, 60's, and 70's and just before open adoption, I'm in between and I find it hard to open up to birthmother's from the early era's because I chose to place my son for adoption and I wasn't forced into it as many women were back then and then I find it hard to open up to those birthmother's in open adoption, because I don't know what they have gone through and it is a very different experience from my own.

I feel my issues are somewhat different, but I find it hard to explain why I feel this way, do any of you Bmoms from the early 80's feel this way or is it just me.

Lewey