STORIES

My Adoption Story May is one of the HARDEST months for a birth mom. As Mother's Day approaches, we want to...

My Adoption Story I was born on June 26 and 3 days later I was placed into the foster care...

        My name is Meagan, and I am a birth mom. In 2010, in my second year of college, I discovered...

"Just as Ashley Mitchell has said, adoption is for life."

A Story of Broken Promises and Misplaced Trust Lakwe or Hello I was born and raised on an island in...

I remind myself that I am human, and it is okay to make a healthy decision and feel sad and...

Adoption is many things. While it is often times portrayed as rainbows and unicorns, those that have lived through the...

Shared Beginnings started in early 2019 out of a desire to see expectant/birth moms treated with dignity and respect and...

Brittany, Shared Beginnings’ Care Coordinator, interviewed American Idol contestant and birth mom, Amber Fielder about her decision to place her...

— Excerpt from October 2016 article “I was induced in January 2006 to ensure their presence at the hospital. That...