[cr653]

katie,
i just read your final decision AFTER i wrote my post
welcome to my world LOL!

anyhow,
i just wanted to say,
YOU GO GIRL!

cris.

[happygmom]

Hi, Katie! So good to hear from you. I hope you are gettting some sleep. 2 months! Wow - you are through the hardest part.

I knew that your parents would love their granddaughter. All of the time that I was reassuring my daughter that she would fall in love with her son, I forgot to tell myself that I would go crazy for this little guy. Give my regards to Grandma and Grandpa.

Happy G'Ma

[Growing]

Hello,

I'm an adult adoptee and can tell you that even if you place your child for adoption there is no guarantee that your child will not "show up" on his/her father's doorstep 20 years from now anyway - whether you parent your child or place. Many, many adoptees search for their birth parents and ask questions their entire lives trying to understand. It is natural and normal - we lost our first parents.
I just became a first time Mom recently and I can tell you that I was scared, as is every new parent. We don't feel adequate to parent and we have to learn as we go. As an adoptee I can now tell the love and instinct comes so naturally with my own child. For the first time in my life I can have a "normal" family relationship with someone of my own flesh and blood. I think it is sad for adoptees to have to have their own children to experience this. My birthmother passed away before I searched, but was also searching for me. I'll never know what it would have been like to have a mother/daughter relationship with my natural mother. You have this opportunity if you don't allow pressure to overwhelm you. I wouldn't trade motherhood for the world. No one could ever replace my child.
Some good books to read are "Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Parents Knew" by Sherrie Eldridge.
God bless you and your baby.

[plants]

im an adoptee and i have never understood why people think they should give children up for adoption you love the child i dont understand why you dont keep it