Birth Parents

Through Adopted Hearts explores the world of adoption from the viewpoints of both birth and adoptive parents. In this follow up to Through Adopted Eyes, author and adoptee Elena Hall guides listeners through a diverse collection of true stories filled with powerful insight into the rest of the adoption triad. If you are an adoptive parent, birth parent, adoptee, or just curious to learn more, this audiobook provides thoughtful and challenging perspective into how adoption shapes and changes lives.

The Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish devotional gives adoptive families encouragement as they seek God to work through the emotions unique to their family. Powerful prayer prompts help you navigate through difficult topics such as rejection, the missing faces in their lives, and much more. As you pray together through these tough topics, you will become the greatest prayer warrior for your adopted child and God will knit your hearts together in his love.

“Never underestimate a former Buckhead debutante.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Charlotte Laws is a woman of a thousand faces.” Sábado magazine “I didn’t realize quite how brave Charlotte is until I see her in action.” The Guardian Dr. Charlotte Laws—“the most well-known unknown”—is a TV star, best-selling author, and world-renowned advocate for women, animals, and the LGBTQ community. NBC News calls her a “crusader.” BuzzFeed voted her one of the 30 fiercest women in the world, and MSNBC labels her a “hero.” But who is this former Atlanta debutante who gave ...

Rona Parish's latest assignment is almost complete when a young woman named Zara Crane approaches her with a request to help trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused - not least because, she discovers that Zara's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier.

Tom can't wait for his lucky birthday. It's an epic family tradition and it's going to be unforgettable! Only, after several disasters involving a flattened chihuahua and a curse from the tooth fairy, it's been cancelled. But Tom won't give up. With the help of his friends (and a pig painted like a zebra), Tom decides to throw himself the party he deserves.

Journalist Rebecca Grant provides us with a never-before-seen look at the changing landscape of pregnancy and childbirth in America—and the rise of midwifery—told through the eyes of three women who all pass through the doors of the same birth center in Portland, Oregon. In remarkable detail and with great compassion, Grant recounts the ups downs, fears, joys, and everyday moments of each woman’s pregnancy and postpartum journey, offering a rare look into their inner lives, perspectives, and choices in real time.

The transformation to parenthood is arguably the most pivotal and vulnerable journey of a person’s entire life. Despite this, pregnant and new parents are often only provided resources regarding how to care for their baby—not for themselves. Parents need to see an authentic representation of what the transformation to parenthood is really like so that they can come out on the other side resilient, whole, and thriving. In Then Comes Baby, Jessica Vernon draws from her own experience as an OB/GYN and mom to delve into the physical and mental parts of birth and the postpartum journey.

Meg loved to make mud pies. But mud pies didn't taste very good. For Meg's birthday, instead of mud, Mom made mud pies with graham crackers, peanut butter, and chocolate pudding!

Pregnant from her first sexual encounter, a teenager living in a town of 3,000 Catholics keeps her secret from everyone until six weeks before the baby's due date. Hustled out of town and hidden in the Iowa countryside within hours of finally confiding in her mother, she concocts a scheme that will allow her to raise her child, but can she win over any of the people who might help her? As her pregnancy and its looming consequences unfold, she realizes that her life of lies and secrets has only just begun.

Don't Forget to Take Care of Yourself Too, New Mom! Today only, get this Amazon book for a discounted price - Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. Limited Time Offer: Go to www.plaid-enterprises.com/freebook to get your FREE bonus book! You're about to discover exactly what steps you will need to take to care for yourself as a new parent. It's been a long and exciting, but challenging journey through pregnancy. Childbirth was no picnic, either - and now, finally your little angel has arrived! You undoubtedly have so many questions, so many ...

Introducing "Forever Friends" - the ultimate guide to fostering a lifetime of love, connection, and understanding between your children! This compelling and practical eBook will equip you with the tools and strategies you need to foster healthy, harmonious, and lasting sibling connections. Delve into the fascinating world of sibling dynamics with Chapter 1, which covers understanding these unique relationships from every angle. Uncover the impact of birth order and the different types of sibling bonds in Chapters 2 and 3. In Chapters 4 and 5, learn how to identify and tackle sibling rivalry...

When you find out you will be a parent, you realize you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into. You sway between the confidence of being the best parent to your baby and self-doubt of failing your little one. It only becomes more daunting as you learn so many things no one ever talked to you about.

In The Case of the Mismatching and Matching DNA, the authors demonstrate, in a step-by-step process, how they identified the father of their adopted six-generation-removed grandfather, who was born about 1776. They also describe discoveries of four new I1-L300 subclades (Y24013, FGC52003, FGC52012, FGC52006), including the ancestors who added two of these four new subclades to the Y-chromosome tree. In the process, they explain how to: read and interpret Y-DNA STR and SNP test results, identify the origins of STR and SNP changes, deduce ancestor STR haplotypes, and prove near and remote ...

Are you expecting a baby and are anxious about their growth and progress? It is time to unlock the secrets to turning the pregnancy into the beautiful baby! As your belly grows, there are many ways to nurture your child's development and ensure a healthy, strong, and beautiful baby.

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology.

After a catastrophe in the real world leaves Kraven's broken body trapped in a regeneration capsule, his mind is connected to the latest new-generation virtual reality game, World of Noria. But things in game-world are not all they seem, and to survive, Kraven will need a strength he has little time to cultivate.

Turning three I'm a sight to see! Celebrate your three-year-old with this humorous and heartfelt look at life, told in simple, easy to read poems. This book, one of a series for children up to age 5, contains bright, colorful illustrations and simple rhymes for parents and grandparents to read to their children. Rhyming is fun and accelerates learning. Even more important is the bonding that takes place when children are read to. Poll 100 people and you'll find that the ones who were read to as children have much closer relationships with their parents and grandparents than the ones who ...

Understand the faithfulness of God, his covenants and promises Have you Waited so Long and Tried so Hard and Yet Find it Difficult to Conceive? Do you Want to Dismantle and Break the Yoke of Barrenness in your Life and Family? Get this book!!! Are you having difficulty getting pregnant? You do not have to suffer silently. There is help for you. God wants you to be productive. His Word is full of promises on this issue waiting for you to appropriate them. Prayer Madueke, best-selling author of Journey into a Happy Christian Marriage and over 100 other books, reveals these promises from the ...

Who says small town life can’t be exciting? Valerie couldn’t help falling in love with Alec. The two of them couldn’t be happier to be getting married, but as it becomes clear the wedding plans aren’t quite coming together, Valerie begins to panic that she might not get that summer wedding she was hoping for after all. Will her faith give her the strength to make her dreams come true? Olivia is longing for Memphis to propose, but months continue to pass, and he still hasn’t popped the question. Does her cowboy intend to make her his wife, or is Olivia mistaken? Erin is thrilled ...

From the author of award-winning children's story books, Delly Duck, Room in the Nest, and other adoption and fostering children's stories, comes an emotional and informative account of the unique challenges and joys of adopting after having a biological child. When Holly and Jon Marlow decided to adopt from foster care, they wondered how much having a child already would affect the adoption process, and how the process would affect their daughter. With warmth and vulnerability, Holly shares her personal experiences, delving into the adoption approval and matching process, introductions, ...