A Birthmother's Story

To any expectant mother that may be considering adoption, here is my story.

Anticipating giving my baby up to strangers is the hardest thing I have ever done. You may already be experiencing the guilt and fear, the uncertainty that comes with knowing that your choices are limited.

This was me too, until I met Michele. Until then, the only thing I was sure of was that I was very pregnant, very scared and completely incapable of making any decisions about my baby.

When I finally met with Michele she was able to show me the other side of my situation. There are loving people who desperately want families, most are happy, successful, nurturing couples that can't have children.

As I learned more about them, slowly I began to feel better about the situation. Here was a way to give my baby the best possible life and make a positive difference in someone else's.

At first I didn't want to meet the couple I had chosen to become my daughters parents. I didn't think they really wanted to meet me either, although they said that they did. I decided at the last minute to meet with them in another city and say my final good-byes at the same time.

I have never felt so appreciated as I did that day these warm, generous people truly cared about me and not just my newborn. We spent an emotional afternoon getting to know each other and by evening I knew I had made the absolutely right decision.

I will always be grateful to Michele Jordan for bringing this couple into my life and providing us all with what each of us needed most; a future for my beautiful daughter, comfort and closure for me and a sweet little girl for the awesome family.

- Darbi