5 Tips to Prepare Financially for Adoption
Planning to grow your family is one of the biggest decisions you make in your lifetime. This comes with excitement and joy as you and your partner plan for the next steps in your parenting journey. It can also come with stress surrounding fertility issues and...
7 Common Adoption Mistakes
All About Adoption is here to help you with every step of your adoption journey! I believe the more informed you are, the smoother and happier the adoption process will be. In previous blogs, we’ve chatted about the how-to’s, the benefits, and the pain points of...
What Is A Home Study?
You’ve done it! You have decided to adopt. You’ve found the adoption agency you want to use and you have officially started the process. Congratulations! Now, it’s time for the hard part, the dreaded home study. The goal of the home study is to make sure you, your...
The 7 Steps You Need to Take in Order to Adopt
Congratulations on your decision to adopt! You are about to embark on a great adventure and I could not be more excited for you. But how to get from “Yes, we want to adopt!” to actually adding to your family? The process of adoption can seem complicated but it can be...
The 6 Avenues of Adoption, Part 6: International Adoptions
This is the conclusion of a 6 part series discussing avenues of adoption. In previous weeks we’ve covered Agency Adoptions, Adoption Consultants, Private Adoptions, Embryo Adoptions, and Foster Care Adoptions. Are you curious about international adoptions? Well...
The 6 Avenues of Adoption, Part 5: Foster Care Adoptions
This is part 5 of a 6 part series discussing avenues of adoption. In the first four weeks we’ve covered Agency Adoptions, Adoption Consultants, Private Adoptions, and Embryo Adoptions. Have you been curious about foster care adoption? My husband and I adopted...
The 6 Avenues of Adoption, Part 4: Embryo Adoptions
This is part 4 of a 6 part series discussing avenues of adoption. In the first three weeks we’ve covered Agency Adoptions, Adoption Consultants, and Private Adoptions. What is embryo adoption? Embryo adoption is when another family has gone through IVF and they...
The 6 Avenues of Adoption, Part 3: Private Adoptions
I hope you have been enjoying my 6-part series on different avenues of adoption. This week in Part 3, I talk about the most common form of adoption, private adoption. Over the last two weeks, we have covered agency adoptions and consultant adoption. While these are...