Birth Mother Stories

I was eighteen, a newly single mom.  I had no job, no home of my own, and I was pregnant for the second time.  A second child was nowhere in my plans. I was struggling to take care of my first – how could I also care for another child?  We moved into an apartment with...

I can still remember the look on Karla''s face at this moment!  Not a lot of adoptive mothers get to watch their baby be born.  It was such a wonderful feeling.  It felt really good to do something so wonderful for them.  I gave them the best gift anyone could ever...

When I first found out I was pregnant I was seventeen years old, recently broken up with my baby''s father, and living at home with my parents.  Pretty typical, really.  But I think the rest of my story is rather unique. Like many pregnant girls my age, I struggled...

I'm writing this to every woman who finds herself pregnant and doesn't know what to do.  I was there.  I know how scary it can be, especially when the father is...well let's just say "not appropriate.” My pregnancy was about as scary as it gets.  I had been raped and...

I was already a single mom struggling to care for my two-year-old son when I took that pregnancy test, convinced at the time it would be negative. I was wrong.  Three minutes and two lines on a stick later, I was floored to find out that I was yet again pregnant, and...