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FIRST TRIMESTER: ASKING QUESTIONS
Asking Questions
What Matters?
Sande Niblack: "What Matters?"
Will I Feel Less of a Woman?
Osvaldo Gold: "Will I Feel Less of a Man?"
Who Am I... Without a Child?
Do I Blame Myself?
Have I Mourned?
Dawn Dixon: "Is Adoption Something I Truly Want?"
Can I Bond?
How Will I Talk About Adoption?
SECOND TRIMESTER: WHO WILL THIS CHILD BE?
Who Will This Child Be?
Visualize Your Child
Susan Wadia-Ells: "Emotional Reality"
Does Race Matter?
Does Culture Matter?
Does Age Matter?
What Will Our Extended Family Say?
Bad Dreams
Joy Levin: "Resemblance"
THIRD TRIMESTER: A PREGNANCY WITHOUT A DUE DATE
A Pregnancy Without a Due Date
"Dear Baby"
"Dear Sister"
Nesting
Debby Wheeler: "Talk About Your Pregnancy"
Fertility Writer's Group
Stephanie Johnson: "Thoughts on Pregnancy"
Ernesto Gold: "Waiting"
Marcia Lightsey Tivoli: "A Long Time"
THE BIG DAY: IT'S A BOY! IT'S A GIRL! IT'S A MIRACLE!
The Big Day
"Dear Birthmother"
Face to Face
Sande Niblack: "Happy Mother's Day"
Lina Fedynyshyn: "Trust"
Stephanie Jacob Gordon: "And Then There Was Jackee"
Joan Broerman: "First Night"
Peg Helminski: "I Am His Mother!"
Mark Frazer: "Packing For The Trip"
Rebecca Lyn Gold: "Welcome Home"
AND THEN... JOYFUL BEGINNINGS AND BITTERSWEET ENDINGS
Joyful Beginnings and Bittersweet Endings
Melissa Barrigar, Caroline M. Kent: "Love and Loss"
Glenda Ogden: "Adoption Saved Me"
Rochelle Wilterdink: "Thoughts"
Lina and Michael Fedynyshyn: "Letter to Birthparents on Adoption Day"
Letter to Birthmother on First Birthday
Caroline M. Kent: "Parenting an Adopted Child"
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