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Thanks everyone! We are truly humbled and honored to be her parents.

Congrats Mark and Adria! Welcome precious Jordyn!

Congrats! Welcome to parenthood and welcome baby Cecilia!

Congrats! What a wonderful blessing!

How funny that this just got bumped! Just last week we had very nice pest control man come to our home to treat our lawn. Yorick was awake and was of course being adorable by smiling at him and "talking" to him. He kept asking questions about whether or not I had a natural delivery, etc... Sounds like strange questions I know but he was talking to me first about his two miracle daughters-wife wasn't supposed to be able to conceive etc...so in context his questions weren't strange! Anyway I explained that Yorick is adopted and that the adoption is open and that both my husband and I were welcomed in the operating room by the birthmom for his c-section delivery. I'm a quick to share type person and maybe in hindsight this pest control guy didn't really need to know all of the details but like I said before, quick to share and I couldn't help myself! I'm proud of it! His first response was "aren't you afraid with it being open that his mom will try to get him back?" My first response was that I am his mom and then no I'm not! Then I tried to educate about what open adoption really is. Not sure I changed his mind but I love that I got to tell Yorick's story! Anyway I love how Melissa described it-it's exsctly how I feel about it. With so many uncertainties in raising a child I love that Yori will never question whether his birthmom loves him. Knowing you are loved by everyone in your life is so important to us and we are thankful to S to wanting to remain in our lives, despite the pain and sadness this might cause her, so he will never question that fact. I'm sure we will have many more opportunities in his life to educate about open adoption and we look forward to it!

She definitely loves the relationship we have with S. However, she still doesn't think knowing her birth parents would have had an impact on her life. She really has never been curious and it never bothered her-the not knowing. She totally gets the open adoption concept and is thrilled for Yori that he gets to know his first mom and hear first hand from her that she loves him. Who knows, maybe she will change her mind one day and want to meet her first parents. I'm definitely going to look to her for guidance as Yori gets older on talking to him about being adopted. I love that for her and for us (my dad, myself and my brother) adoption was always just so normal.

Jay and I would be down!!! We would love to have a great SA support! We are very blessed to have formed a great bond with Jeff and Erin. It would be wonderful if we could have an even bigger group! I'm sure S would like it too but don't want to speak for her...

This topic is so interesting! Luckily our families experienced our infertility pains with us so they were all 100% on board with adoption. My husband comes from a bi-racial family so race was not an issue either. My mom is adopted however hers was a closed adoption and she never had a desire to know or find her biological parents. I think everyone's struggles were wrapping their heads around an open adoption. Adoption was "normal" to them however open adoption was forgein. I also admit that when we got to Abrazo I wasn't really sure what open really meant either. After being placed with Yorick and everyone seeing the relationship we have with S has really opened everyone's eyes, including ours, to what an open adoption truly is. Everyone, again including us, also sees firsthand the benefits of an open adoption. Long ramble but basically just trying to say that people always fear what they don't know or have not experienced for themselves. It's normal human behavior to question the unknown! We were fully embraced by our families during our entire journey, infertility and adoption, and for that I'm so grateful. However it wasn't until we all had first hand knowledge and experience with it that we all truly got it! They will come around!

Thanks everyone! This will definitely help!

Was wondering if anyone knew of any on-line scrap booking websites that would be helpful in making our profile? Our home study will be complete next Thursday so we need to get going on our profile! K&G