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Posted by Shaylee Honey on September 27, 2010 at 1:28 pm
I was 17 when I found out I was pregnant. My life was perfect: great family, wonderful boyfriend, and a good church. The first thing my mom said when I told her was pregnant was "You need to give the baby up for adoption because being a teenage single mom is not an easy job." That night, my mom looked up the number for Christian Homes & Family Services and gave it to me. At the time, I told her that there was no way I could ever do that to my child.
Later, when I was about 7 months pregnant, my boyfriend and I were watching a talk show about adoption and we decided we should probably at least talk to someone about adoption. That is when I went to Christian Homes & Family Services and talked to Becca. My boyfriend and I picked out three families that we liked and then narrowed the families down to one. We got to meet "our" family about 2 weeks later and we fell in love with them and decided to place our daughter with them. Our adoption is open and I visit with my daughter and her mom often. We have not met face-to-face yet because I want that to be my daughter's decision and I want her to be ready. She loves us so much and knows we loved her enough to place her.
I have never regretted our decision to place. That doesn't mean it has always been easy. It still hurts even now 13.5 years later and it takes a lot of love to go through something like this.
Today's guest blogger is a former birth mother with much love in her heart.
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