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"An Expectant-Adoptive Mom"

While I was waiting to be matched, I tried to step out of the shoes of "adoptive mom" and into the shoes of "birth mom."

by Lesa Quale Ferguson

TAGS: Adoption Paperwork, Birth Mothers, Personal Stories

• Real Adoption Stories
• Surviving the Wait
• The Process

December 10, 2014

While I was waiting to be matched, I tried to step out of the shoes of “adoptive mom” and into the shoes of “birth mom.”

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