Blog About Adoption
Welcome to Lifetime Adoption’s website blog about adoption. Lifetime Adoption is a domestic adoption agency with over 35 years of experience creating families through infant adoption. We specialize in domestic adoption, which generally involves adopting a newborn or child up to six. As one of the top adoption agencies in America, we’ve made the dreams of parenthood come true for thousands of couples across the nation.
Our founder, Mardie Caldwell, established Lifetime and our adoption website after experiencing the joy of parenthood through adoption. Caldwell designed Lifetime’s successful adoption program to be what she needed when adopting her son. Over 35 years later, her adoption program guides families through each step of the way, educating and preparing hopeful adoptive parents for their Lifetime Adoption. Caldwell is also an adoption author; she has written six books and created this blog about adoption.
Open adoption is the most common type of domestic adoption today. In a modern open adoption, the birth parents select the adoptive parents for their baby. They view profiles and talk with adoptive couples before making their choice. After the adoption placement, there is usually some form of contact, from sharing pictures and supplying updates on the child to in-person visits once a year. Both the birth parents and the adoptive parents come to an agreement about what the post-adoption contact will be. You can learn much more about what open adoption looks like by browsing our adoption website.
After deciding that they’d like to expand their family through adoption, most hopeful adoptive parents start prioritizing financial planning, researching adoption agencies, and reading up on open adoption. Lifetime’s blog about adoption covers articles on the adoption process, open adoption, parenting, financial, transracial adoption, and more.
Adoption can give you the family you’ve been praying for. It can be the most incredible journey and give you the greatest of blessings: a child of your own. As a hopeful adoptive parent, you’re able to provide a child with a happy, loving home. Read our adoptive families blog about adoption and get info on birth parents, what to expect in open adoption, adoption costs, and how to enjoy your adoption journey.
Lifetime can help you successfully adopt a baby or child, completing an Adoption for a Lifetime! To start with domestic adoption, you can complete our free application on our adoption website today. If you have questions, give us a call at 727-493-0933 and speak with one of Lifetime’s adoption professionals.
Can You Name an Adopted Child?
A name is important because it carries memory and meaning — it holds identity. Hopeful adoptive parents sometimes wonder, "Can you name an adopted child?" or even, "Do we have to keep the name our baby's birth mother gave him?" In today's modern, open...
How Much Does It Cost to Adopt a Child?
People often ask, "How much does it cost to adopt a child?" Adoption can give you the family you've always dreamed of having. It can be the most incredible journey and joy of your life and give you the greatest of blessings: a child of your own. Many families...
Will I Love My Adopted Child? Bonding With an Adopted Child
Sometimes hopeful parents wonder if raising a child through adoption would be "the same" as raising a child they gave birth to. As most adoptive parents will tell you, "There's no difference. That child is your baby!" The adoption truth is this: adoption builds...
Can I Breastfeed My Adopted Baby?
Many hopeful adoptive mothers wonder, "Can you lactate without being pregnant?" If you're adopting a newborn, breastfeeding may seem out of reach to you. But don't feel discouraged. Remarkably, with proper information, guidance, and lots of support, you can breastfeed...
Adoption Support Groups: How to Find the Right One for You
Adoption support groups can be a wonderful resource for hopeful parents at any stage of their adoption journey. For example, you might have just begun researching domestic adoption, or you could be in the process of waiting for a birth mother to select you as her...
How Closed Adoption Impacts Birth Mothers and Adoptees
Before open adoption gained popularity in the 1980s, there was another adoption experience known as closed adoption. Geared towards protecting the rights of adoptive parents, closed adoption has been deeply criticized for not adequately taking into account the...