Placing a baby for adoption can seem like a complicated process, especially when you’re facing an unplanned pregnancy. When you consider adoption, you will always have certain undeniable parental adoption rights. As a prospective birth mother, you will always have the right to do what is...
If you are a pregnant woman considering adoption, transracial adoption is one of your choices. Transracial adoption is simply adopting a child from another race. Cradle of Hope Adoption Center is a private nonprofit adoption agency with offices in DC, MD and VA. If you are a birth mother thinking...
It was a hard decision, but you’ve finally managed to think it through. Placing your baby for adoption was the last thing you wanted, but sometimes we are stuck in a situation that needs a difficult decision. After careful consideration you’ve decided that it might...
For any woman who is considering adoption, imagining handing your baby over to someone else to love can be nearly impossible to picture in your mind. At this point in the adoption journey, you may feel conflicted about whether adoption is the right choice. Cradle...
Choosing adoptive parents to raise your child is a loving decision. Many different factors go into this decision to choose adoption, and it certainly isn’t an easy one. Many of Cradle of Hope’s adoptive parents will agree to an open adoption with future visits and ongoing...
An unplanned pregnancy can bring up a lot of questions, and as an expectant mother, you may be considering adoption. Adoption can be a difficult decision to make with a lot of legal, social, and emotional aspects involved, so you need to be well informed about...
Cradle of Hope Adoption Center has many, loving, carefully screened families who would welcome in their homes and hearts a baby born addicted to drugs, even if the baby needed to stay in NICU for several days or weeks while going through drug withdrawal. In...
It isn’t uncommon to not be sure that you are going to “give up your baby for adoption” until you are at the hospital. We say “give up” because it is the most common term, but what you are doing is really anything but that....
If you’re experiencing an unexpected pregnancy, you’re probably feeling scared, confused, or alone. However, you need to understand that you are not alone. Not only are there so many women who are going through the same thing, but there are also people out there who would...