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 Dear Family and Friends,

We are excited to tell you about our plans to build our family through adoption! For a long time, we have been talking about bringing a child into our home.  It has been quite an emotional journey getting to this point in our lives, and now we are ready to proceed toward a fulfilling future. 

We are pursuing an "independent" or "private" adoption of a domestic newborn.  We have retained an attorney who specializes in adoptions for this purpose, and are now beginning our search for a child. This means that we will be searching on our own for a birth mother who wishes to make an adoption plan.  We have done a great deal of preparation – in terms of learning about the adoption process – and have discovered that, in the United States, most adopted newborns are placed in this way.

Of course, the search for our birth mother is the first step.  The adoption laws in our state say that anyone can help us locate a birth mother as long as they are not being paid to do so. Since our attorney cannot assist us in this effort, we are reaching out to as many people as we can to let them know to keep us in mind if they learn of a pregnant woman who wishes to make an adoption plan.  We are hoping that you can help us in this way. We are searching in other ways too, but we know from the experience of others, that birth mothers and adoptive parents often connect through word of mouth.  So, please spread the word to your family, friends, neighbors, parishoners, and work colleagues.

If you know of a birth mother who wishes to make an adoption plan, please don’t hesitate to tell her about us. We would love to meet with her or answer any questions she might have.  You may give the birth mother our FIRST NAMES ONLY (in order to maintain some anonymity), our toll-free number (1-866-581-5494), and our e-mail edandmargaretb@yahoo.com & web site www.edandmargaretb.freehomepage.com  addresses.  

We appreciate your assistance, support, and prayers and will keep you posted on our progress.  Thank you so much for keeping us in mind as we start this journey!

Love, 

Ed and Margaret