Adoptive Families Blog

When you've just decided that adoption is the way you'll grow your family, it can be hard to know where to start.

What do you need help with to begin your adoption? What's standing in your way of achieving your dreams of adopting a baby?

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Topics: adopt a child, Adopting a Baby, Adoption Questions, Adoption webinar, Domestic Adoption, how to afford adoption, I want to adopt a baby

There are many reasons that couples decide to pursue adoption in their 40s and later. They may have been putting off having children until their financial security became more established, or they might be hoping to create a family after remarriage. 

If this sounds like you, you might be wondering, “How old can you be and still adopt?"  Read on to learn about domestic infant adoption options for older parents at Lifetime!

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Topics: Adopting a Baby, adoption qualifications, Domestic Adoption, domestic infant adoption, older parent adoption

Many people believe that bonding with your newly adopted baby should happen instantly and magically. But the reality is that bonding takes dedication and time.

The good news is that you can bond with your newly adopted baby, with intention. Here are 4 practical techniques to bond with your adopted child:

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Topics: Adoption Tips, Infant adoption, Adopting a Baby, Open Adoption, adopt a baby, Domestic Adoption, attachment in adoption, domestic infant adoption

This post originally appeared on our blog a couple of years ago as "Bonding with Baby after Infant Adoption," and we've refreshed it for 2017.

Some adoptive parents expect to feel a bond with their adopted baby right away. Right now, you might be feeling worried and uncertain…what if you don’t feel a connection? Lifetime knows that there are special bonds which develop between adoptive parents and their babies. Like many other areas of being a parent, bonding with a baby will take work and dedication. Today, we're sharing 5 tips for bonding with your adopted baby!

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Topics: Adoption Tips, Infant adoption, Adopting a Baby, Open Adoption, adopt a baby, Domestic Adoption, attachment in adoption, domestic infant adoption

Many Christian couples are realizing the need to step forward in faith and adopt a baby or child. Our Founder Mardie Caldwell's book Called to Adoption is an amazing, information-packed resource for those who wish to learn more about the miracle of families created through adoption.

If you're thinking about domestic infant adoption, such a useful book is indispensable! Today, Lifetime is sharing one adoptive mother's book review of this Christian adoption book:

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Topics: Adoption, Adoption Questions, Christian Adoption, Adopting a Baby, Called to Adoption, Christian adoption book, Adoption Book, books about adoption, Domestic Adoption, domestic infant adoption

As with all family planning, it's common that the hopeful mom-to-be stands as the focus. Loved ones may be sensitive to women waiting for a child. Doctors assisting couples through pregnancy or infertility may focus on the mother-to-be. In adoption, there may be a tendency to direct materials and questions to the prospective adoptive mom. Even a birth mother may prefer to engage more with the adoptive mom, than with the adoptive father. When hoping, planning, and waiting for a child, it seems it's a woman's world.

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Topics: Infertility, Waiting to Adopt, Adopting a Baby, adoptive dads, Father's Day, adoptive fathers

Most adoptive parents-to-be are faced with a mountain of paperwork in the adoption process. It can be very daunting and overwhelming especially when they are already dealing with a lot of emotional, mental, and financial pressure.

The adoption process can be time-consuming and will require major changes in your lifestyle and commitments. Couples who work can find it incredibly hard to keep up with all the pre- and post-adoption paperwork and adoption reading. In this post, we'd like to share with you some ways to effectively deal with all of your adoption paperwork...

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Topics: Adoption, Adoption Tips, General, Waiting to Adopt, Adopting a Baby

Question: My friends who are pregnant are doing all kinds of prep for baby: childbirth classes, visiting the labor & delivery ward at the hospital, and choosing pediatricians.

Where should my husband and I start in our baby preparations? I’m not sure what to do first, since we don’t know when we’ll bring our baby home.”

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Topics: Infant adoption, Newborn Adoption, Adopting a Baby, adopt a baby

The caring staff of Adoption Coordinators at Lifetime Adoption regularly receive emails from past Lifetime clients on how life is going after adoption. They email us updates, photos, and words of gratitude for the work we did to help them. So, we were thrilled to get this email from this sweet little boy's birth parents:

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Topics: Open Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Adoption Update, Adopting a Baby

If you've just started researching adoption as a possibility for building or starting your family, you’ve probably been looking for reviews of various adoption companies online. It will help you decide which company to work with if you can see what their past clients have had to say. Lifetime Adoption Center has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. This means that we’re recognized to have the highest level of business practices.

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Topics: Open Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Adopting a Baby