AdopTalk

I continue to find it painfully sad when the internet, instead of conencting us, learngn from ne another's mistakes and enoying the strenfgh of numbers, it instead keeps us isolated and alone, talking to ourselves in pain...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ALL READ 1/22/o6 POST here: Adoption DotCom

Here are some blogs:

1) http://www.paragraphein.blogspot.com/
Excellent writing and discussion on adoption, adoption loss, and adoption reform. Intelligent and insightful - I can't say enough good things about this blog. So I'll just say - check it out!

2) http://musingsofthelame.blogspot.com/
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.
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3) http://isaycestlavie.blogspot.com/
"Dot" is an expectant young woman with a huge decision before her. She is currently making an adoption plan for her unborn child. She shares her journey through her blog.

4) kim.kim http://haggardoldpsycho.blogspot.com/
"An adoption reunion blog. Closed adoption and reunion is an experience only those who go through can truly understand. I am hoping that this will be of service to other mothers who may be embarking upon reunion or still be searching for their adult child." Sums it up beautifully.

5) http://tearforjen.blogspot.com/
From Jen: "This blog was born out of my PAIN. A cathartic dumping ground of sorts. Maybe life is sad for everyone. It's a lot sadder when you lose your kid. Especially when you start thinking and you realize you could have done it. You could have kept. Too late, too bad, so sad. So here I am, saving the world from unnecessary infant adoption and the like..." Adoption, resources for parenting, and thoughts on life -

6) This Sucks http://realtransparency.blogspot.com/
From the Blogger: "A new mother realizing all she has lost when she became a birthmother almost 10 years ago." Heather continues to work out her grief, loss, and anger through her blog.

7) Maxine Lives Here http://ihavetwokids.blogspot.com/
A blog about placement and life after, "Maxine Lives Here" is another excellent adoption blog.

8) Birthmother; Reprise http://feracious.blogspot.com/
"In 2001, I had a baby boy and gave him up for adoption. It is an open adoption, I have become good friends with the adoptive parents, and Samuel couldn't be happier. So being on birth control, I wasn't expecting to get pregnant again..."

9) http://wetfeet.typepad.com/wet_feet/
"Wet Feet" shares the grief and loss of a birth mother in a very expressive and clear way - honest and bold.

10) Speaking For Myself http://speakingformyself.blogspot.com/
From "Speaking for Myself": "On being mother from afar to one and mother, up-close- and-personal, to another ... and on the process of writing about both kinds of motherhood." A new blog about an open adoption shut down by the adoptive parents and the pain it has caused.

11) http://notmother.blogspot.com/
Musings of a birthmother.

12) Dance with Magicpointeshoes http://magicpointeshoe.livejournal.com/
This is the blog of a birthmother who then married the birthfather of the boy they placed into a semi-open adoption. Adoption, marraige, parenting, college, family life, and random thoughts are discussed.

13) Making a Choice For Life http://whatshallwedo.blogspot.com/
Just found out I am pregnant *again*. Working on an adoption plan. ARGH!