Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Nov 17, 2009, 12:57 pm
I have tried very hard to understand things from the birth mom's side, or maybe some of you hadn't noticed (obviously by some of the comments that I get and chose to delete rather than post fo...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Nov 17, 2009, 12:53 pm
Just found out we were not chosen to parent the baby due December 20. We were really hoping. Well, we really hope for EVERY child, but particularly this one. The birth mom is in our state. It is dif...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Nov 17, 2009, 8:59 am
just came across this great, informative site about adoption awareness: ADOPTION AWARENESS Contact Person: Professor Cynthia R. Mabry (202) 806-8067 cmabry@law.howard.edu HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL O...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Nov 16, 2009, 10:02 am
I'm growing weary of all the waiting. We inquire about a child and wait. And wait. And wait. And then wait some more. And I think "this is it, this is our child." But no, we hear nothing. We just ...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Nov 4, 2009, 10:42 am
Meet Annie. She is 6 weeks old. A friend of a friend found her wandering out of a corn field and into the road. She is now the newest and youngest member of our pack. The other two four-leggeds aren&#...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Oct 30, 2009, 9:52 am
This is A, the 4-year-old girl, we are waiting to here about. November 19 is the date of the "matching conference" for A. This means they (her social worker and coworkers) will have already narrowed...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Oct 29, 2009, 3:47 pm
We are currently waiting to hear about these 3 sisters. How can you NOT fall in love? We are also waiting to hear about a 4-year-old girl and a baby who is due Dec. 20. It will be our turn one of th...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Oct 15, 2009, 8:17 pm
According to a 2004 National Vital Statistics Report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2000, 15.6% or 1,003,000 of the 6,401,000 pregnancies in the United Sta...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Oct 15, 2009, 7:14 pm
Ok, so when I started this over a year ago, I never imagined I'd STILL be blogging about the process of adoption a year later! Good grief! This week I've been thinking about taking the bad wi...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 28, 2009, 7:25 pm
A reality series...it took months to figure out the details. Adoption Diaries, a new original series on WEtv explores the process behind privately held open...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 28, 2009, 6:48 pm
Ok, so how old am I now? 44. I've learned a couple of important things rather late in life: life is not fair (learn it early)this is not what i had planned The first is simple enough. Life is no...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 28, 2009, 11:43 am
Adoption is about love for the child, not that the child was not wanted. This heart warming book is aimed to help children and parents understand what one birth mother was thinking when she decided to...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 21, 2009, 9:51 am
When is the right time to move from infertility to adoption? When do you emotionally feel ready? Will you ever feel ready and must move forward with other ways of creating your forever family! Mardie ...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 12, 2009, 9:33 am
Our journey to adoption is so not what I expected. When we began, we had our hearts set on an open, newborn adoption. As the months passed by and nothing was happening, one birthmom looked at our pro...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 11, 2009, 8:34 am
New show premieres Saturday, Sept. 12 at 10p|9c on WE tv WE tv's new original series, Adoption Diaries, explores the process in which privately held open adoptions take place. The series showcase...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 8, 2009, 4:52 pm
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 7, 2009, 10:01 am
Ok, so I've been blogging for a year, with no end in sight. How can I get my blog turned into a book and a movie??? And people sent her all that stuff, no one has sent me anything, then again I&#...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 6, 2009, 9:38 pm
“The Blind Side” depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Sep 6, 2009, 8:42 pm
from the fertility advocate “...And loved how honestly they handled her infertility in the movie - in a beginning scene when she noticed a baby carriage going by - and her devoted husband gently ki...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Aug 31, 2009, 10:05 am
EVERY pregnancy is a blessing. It means someone will be a parent and a family will be born. Please don't ever forget that. I wish everyone could know how much of a blessing being pregnant and b...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Aug 20, 2009, 10:24 pm
No, we haven't adopted yet. Yes, it's been a year. I'm just to frustrated to post. We are unhappy with our social worker, but were told we cannot change. If we went to another family se...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Jul 30, 2009, 11:43 am
Maine: You do your children a great disservice by only updating your waiting children QUARTERLY Connecticut: Thank you for posting a "last modified" date! This is greatly appreciated by us waiting pa...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Jul 30, 2009, 11:39 am
11 months, 1 week & 6 days need I say more...
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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Jul 30, 2009, 11:32 am

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Julie B. posted an article on A Family is Born - Jul 24, 2009, 3:37 pm
Taking a break this summer? Plan to jumpstart your family building efforts in September at the 2009 Family Building Conference: Adoption, Infertility Treatment, Donor and Third Party Options Saturday...
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