Not the oldest grandchild.

My paternal birth-grandfather recently passed away. My birth father’s wife kept me up to date on every minute detail of his diagnosis, battle and his eventual death due to pancreatic cancer. I read each message and felt immense sympathy toward a man I never met even though we live in the same city.
Besides a [...]

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Adoption Records Opened in Ontario

Finally. As of June 1, 2009 if you were adopted in Ontario – or if your child was placed for adoption – you can receive information from your birth and adoption records through Service Ontario.
Prior to locating my birth parents the only information I had was the initial of my birth surname, my first name [...]

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Who Does She Look Like?

I suppose it’s a natural question, but it never occurred to me that family and friends would be so entranced with who my biological daughter looks like more – her mom or her dad? My mother-in-law went so far as to post an 8×10 picture of my husband at six months of age on [...]

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Celebrity Adoption

When I heard Madonna was hoping to adopt internationally again, I immediately had my concerns. Some people think such celebrities should focus their attention on adopting within their own country, while others believe the fact that their desire to adopt brings adoption into the spotlight is a positive thing.
In the April 2009 Adoption Council of [...]

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I Gave Birth to a Baby Girl.

I haven’t written in a long time.
I had a baby.
I am mom to a beautiful baby girl born in August 2008. Her conception and birth is nothing short of a miracle for her father and I. In short, I found out I was pregnant around Christmas 2008. I was not undergoing fertility treatments. I was, [...]

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Adoption Connections

I don’t think I fully understood open adoption until I began researching open adoption online. Through the magic of the Internet I was introduced to a remarkable woman who was not only a birth mother, but who has opened her heart and talents to other birth parents and adoptive parents in Canada through her website [...]

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Amanda is Looking for her Birth Sister – Can you help?

The following came in as a comment to another posting, but I thought I would give it it’s own posting in hopes that maybe someone will be able to help this person. If the Internet is good for one thing, it is a good resource for people who are searching for a lost loved one.
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My [...]

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Ten Confessions of an Adoptee

I often wonder how different I would have turned out had I been raised by my birth parents
I often think my birth parents are still hiding some information regarding my birth from me
My adoptive parents are my parents and it [...]

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Ten Confessions of a Hopeful Adoptive Parent

I am worried my husband and I will never be chosen to privately adopt
Just when I think I know everything there is to know about adoption I find out I don’t
The first time we heard about open adoption it scared [...]

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The Confusion and Guilt of Being a Sister by Birth

My first face-to-face meeting with my half-birth-sister on my birth-father’s side was when she was fifteen years old. She was full of attitude and spunk and my initial impression upon seeing her was that she is very pretty, has nice long legs (must be from her mother’s side) and that she looked like a nice [...]

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