Welcome to Birth Mother Resources
We truly care about you and your baby and about other women in your situation. We want to do everything possible to help you and your child. This website, Birth Mother Resources, was created to help you learn and understand more about
your pregnancy, about the child you will deliver or have already given birth to, and about resources that can help you to raise your child yourself or help you to place your child with the perfect loving adopting family. No matter what your situation and what you finally decide, we want to help
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Introduction
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The sections below, and the blue links in each section, will take you to information and resources that can help you. We suggest you read down the whole page first and them come back and click on the blue links that are important to you. You can also scroll down the boxes on the right and left hand margins of each page and click on any
links that you want to know more about.
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Includes information on financial assistance, help concerning medical and health issues, concerns about nutrition,
diet, and weight gain, drugs and alcohol concerns, as well as birth mother resources and information on labor and delivery, on selecting
a hospital or birthing center, and on both pre-delivery and post-delivery depression. Also included is information on prenatal care, morning sickness,
and a pregnancy
calendar that will give a birth mother a guide to all the changes taking place in your body on a week by week basis. Finally, there are birth mother resources for support groups and
for crisis centers throughout the U.S. and Canada. |
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Assistance can be available to any birth mother at any stage in the pregnancy or birth process. This section includes a listing of agencies
A-Z that can help you, benefits and services offered through a variety of governmental programs, and resources on child
welfare agencies. |
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Includes a special section on infant safe haven laws, child abuse, and domestic
violence. There is also information on shelters for a pregnant woman or birth mother that are available throughout the U.S. and Canada. |
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This site is for a birth mother and/or birth father who is planning on parenting and raising the child and includes resources on breast
feeding, on child development from ages 0-21, advice from experts for a birth mother concerning child and infant health, and on support
groups specifically for a birth mother and birth father who plan on raising their child. Included is a special area to help a birth father with the many new issues presented by a baby. |
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This section of the website is for a birth mother who is considering placing her child for adoption. It includes birth mother resources on the adoption
laws for each of the 50 states, where and how to start the adoption process, information and help on the emotional
issues for the birth mother and birth father. Additional help is offered through support
groups that are available for a birth mother who is thinking about placing her child for adoption or has already completed a placement. |
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A continuation of adoption resources. It deals with the various types of child adoption
including open and closed child adoption and agency and private child adoption. It
also presents resources on the differences between agency and facilitator adoption, help on selecting
an adoption agency, selecting an adoption attorney, and even help on selecting an
adopting family and placing a child with relatives. |
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Concerns the legal rights of a birth mother, the legal rights of the birth father, and grandparents
legal rights as they are all related to the adoption process. |
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Provides resources regarding birth records, information regarding access
to records, information on birth mother adoption registries, and search and reunion
resources. |
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We truly care about you and your baby and about other women in your situation. We want to do everything possible to help you and your child. There are many kinds assistance programs available to help you and other pregnant women, birth mothers
and children free of charge. These
include financial, medical, nutritional and health assistance programs as well as a variety of support and information groups. If you need help you can click this link to find all kinds of assistance programs. And if you want our help you can call us anytime and from any place in the U.S. toll
free. You can get our help whether you are pregnant or have already delivered and are raising your child yourself or want to place your child for adoption. We are here to help you and there is never any cost or obligation on your part.
If you are considering placing your child for adoption we are also here to help. We would be happy to help find a safe and loving home with a family that has been very carefully and thoroughly screened. We can help you regardless of what state you are in. Our services to you are free, your medical and legal expenses will be provided for and we will make sure that you
receive whatever reimbursement for housing, lost wages and living expenses that state laws allow. You may reach me or my staff by calling our toll free number or you can contact us by email. If there is anything we can do to help you and your baby, please contact us.
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