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  1. So helpful! Thank you for giving us the verbage and the reasoning behind it. Makes a lot of sense.
  2. Thank you so much Elly I just finished reading through that thread. Great information and still so much to think about . . .
  3. Reading back through this thread, I realize I was at the same conference in Wisconsin as you Deb (at St. Norbert's in Green Bay!) where they talked about keeping the birth family's information private as it is the child's story to tell. I have read that and understand where this is coming from because I have too, as others have mentioned in this thread, seen a slippery slope of questions from family and friends arise when asking about the birth family. Mark and I have thankfully not had family opposition, but my question is in the age of Facebook, how do we grapple with this privacy issue? We are friends with our daughter's birth mom on Facebook (and birth father, and extended family). I am very thankful for our open relationship. I also realize that because our birth mom has no privacy settings and posts at least 5 times each day, I don't know how anything will ever be private. My friends and family can go onto her page and learn anything they ever wanted to know about her. And some have and come back to talk to me about what they have read or learned.
  4. What an absolutely beautiful story and I agree that I also love her writing style. It is so helpful to think about this entire process from a different perspective. It helps me to develop empathy and understanding and really think about what does our birth mom or any mom for that matter want for their child. I especially like her quote about wanting life, living, laughing and loving for her son indefinitely. It is my prayer that we will always provide that to our daughter.
  5. Does anyone know if Abrazo accepts credit card payments for the $7750 due after the parent orientation weekend? We are trying to decide the benefits of taking out a loan against our retirement or to put some of this on credit card. We have some money saved up and have $ in retirement, but not sure if we should go there. Any advice would be much appreciated! We are excited to get this all started!
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