Birth parents have not had a voice for many years - an adoption blog, gives many silent members of the adoption community an open forum. How do birth parents feel about open adoption, adoption reform, or adoptive parents? Read and learn another side of the story through an adoption blog.
There is no way I would want to try to determine which adoption blog was better than the other, so take a peek into the world of birth parents through their adoption blog, listed below in alphabetical order.
List updated January 2010.Amstel Life
Follow this young woman who placed her daughter for adoption 5 years ago in an open adoption. She shares what it's like to be in an open adoption relationship, and everything that goes with it in her adoption blog.Birth Mother, First Mother Forum
This blog is written from the perspective of the birth mother, but all sides of the adoption triad read and comment. Many comments are from adopted people who share their feelings and insights. From the blog: "A place where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news and opinions. And vent."Endure for a Night
What can I say about Susie and her adoption blog, except that I really enjoy reading what she has to say about the adoption. She placed "cricket" with a lesbian, Jewish couple in an open adoption. She's honest about her emotions and shares them freely. A new adoption blog that started in the Fall of 2009, this is one to keep track of in 2010.I Should Really Be Working
From the blogger: "This blog is where I plan to talk, vent, whine, celebrate, yell, discuss, and contemplate about my daughters adoption. And some adoption issues in general." Learn more about this first mom who placed her daughter through a Safe Haven. (She has strong opinions about those as well.)Musings of the Lame
FauxClaud is a birthmom with a talent for writing and a passion for adoption reform. Blogging about personal life and her experience with adoption, "Musings of the Lame" is a wonderful adoption blog to add to your daily must read list.My Journey Through Motherhood, Life, and Now as a Birthmom
Rebekah writes about the placement of her youngest child in an open, domestic adoption. From the blogger: "This blog highlights all the good the bad and the ugly parts of being a single mom and also a birth mom." It really is the tale of two Rebekahs has the adoptive mother in this open adoption also has an adoption blog, "Heart Cries." Now you can follow along with both sides of this adoption story.Sturdy Yet Fragile
Another new adoption blog in 2009, Sturdy Yet Fragile is written by a birth mom who is now parenting a little one and exploring her feelings about the child she placed several years ago.The Chronicles of Munchkin Land
From the blogger: "This blog originally started as a free blog on WordPress.com. Initially it was a place to chronicle my feelings and emotions as a birth mother. It has since evolved into a place where I talk about my healing, adoption in general, reform and other adoption-type issues. And it is not rainbows and butterflies. It never was and it never will be. This blog is my honest, no-apologies to anyone look at how adoption is affecting me and my family. And no, it’s not all negative either. There are great moments that I have shared here and will continue to share. I am blessed and I am aware of that fact."
Jenna is also the blogger on Adoption.com as the Birth/First Parent Blogger.
