[Kiz]

After a 1.5 year wait, my wife and I just matched for adoption. We will have a baby girl due May 4.

My question is this: how do we handle the birth announcements? How should it read in the paper? Do we announce the birth parents, or only ourselves?

What about annoucements we send in the mail?

I'm sure this issue has been handled before on this forum, but I couldn't find anthing. Any thoughts or advice is appreciated. Thanks.

[mom2justynsarah]

Originally Posted by Kiz

After a 1.5 year wait, my wife and I just matched for adoption. We will have a baby girl due May 4.

My question is this: how do we handle the birth announcements? How should it read in the paper? Do we announce the birth parents, or only ourselves?

What about annoucements we send in the mail?

I'm sure this issue has been handled before on this forum, but I couldn't find anthing. Any thoughts or advice is appreciated. Thanks.

Awwwwww..CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Our announcement had a beautiful picture of our baby daughter dressed in one of those "angel" costumes with wings. She was laying on top of a bed of roses.

Inside read something like:

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of our little angel Sarah Brandi.

Born 12/12/04
7lbs 2 oz
8pm Central
Proud parents Mark & Julie
Proud brother Justin

Or you can say something like "Please welcome our beautiful baby girl ____. Born ___

Proud parents ______

I don't feel it necessary to include anyone else but her parents...YOU!

[kelceesmom]

Congratulations! We will be finalizing in 4 weeks. My announcements are going to read. Baby born and her date if birth and welcomed into our arms forever on the finalization date. I've also seen some saying that when the baby was brought home which could be a few days or weeks. But for the paper we just announced our baby being born on such and such date.

[AwaitingBeloved]

Congratulations! How exciting.


I have heard of others acknowledging the birthparents, and I think that's very nice. We considered that, but everyone knows she has birthparents and this was really our announcement, so we wanted it to be about us. It was a hard thing to decide, but we wanted a simple photocard with her stats.

I got so caught up with trying to make what I wanted to fit, that I forgot to put her length and weight! So, DH went to the store today for clear labels to put on for the stats. What a do-do!

I would say, if you feel inclined to include the bparents, that is a very nice gesture. If you want it just to be about your immediate family, that's fine, too.

The paper thing, I'm not sure about. I haven't gotten that far. I think we'll just put something about we've welcomed home our daughter. Maybe include something about the adoption, but not sure. I am torn because I want to share this with everyone, but at the same time, it really is her story to tell if she choses to when she's older. Sigh. What to do, what to do...

[taramayrn]

This is what my son's parents put in the paper....

"J and S thankfully announce the birth of Thomas Isaac Gray on February 13, 2000. Welcomed with love by big sister Emma, the F families, Grandmama Mary, the C's, the W's and M's. Thanks to the LeBlancs, Nielsens and Wheelers (birthfamilies) There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings."

[coco46]

I think it's completely appropriate to include only yourselves as the parents if you wish. If you'd like to acknowledge the birthparents, that's nice too, but as a bmom, I wouldn't be hurt if I wasn't on the announcement.

I've seen lots of adoption announcements worded something like:

We're pleased to announce the arrival (adoption) of "Baby Doe"
Born Oct 31, 2006 at 7:30 PM
In our arms forever on November 5, 2006 (if you wish to include the date baby came home)
7 pounds, 3 ounces
19 inches
Proud parents John and Jane Doe

If you Google "adoption announcements" you can find tons of websites offering baby announcements with a lot of sample wording that you may like better.

Best of luck with your match.

[squeek]

What we did was take the very first picture taken of our son and upload .... there are numerous sites out there (PM me if you'd like to know which I used). They have lots of announcement layouts. The announcement we used was a baby blue background with a baby hanger spelling BABY and Zack's picture.

We chose ours to say...

Bob and Tonya are excited to announce
the arrival of...

ZACKARY SOMERS

born on...
January 15, 2006
7:08 a.m.
7 lb 3 oz and 19-1/2 in.

Delivered into our arms on
January 24, 2006

Here is ours if it's allowed.

[AwaitingBeloved]

TaraMay, I really like that for the paper announcement. Thanks for sharing.

[taramayrn]

Thanks Julie...just thought I'd share an example of one to use in the paper. It isn't obvious that it was an adoption and it was nice that we were thanked.

[taramayrn]

Julie...forgot to say congratulations on Kaitlyn! She is so beautiful!