BIRTH MOTHER SERVICES

Florida adoption law allows for the payment of reasonable living expenses related to the pregnancy and that may include housing, transportation, medical, clothing, child care, utilities and cell phone costs. There are limits and some restrictions but if the cost is necessary and reasonable, Florida law allows the payment.

If you need an ultrasound to determine the due date, gender or for proof of pregnancy, we can send you to a private sonographer, at no cost to you.

Finding a doctor is as easy as should be sometimes and navigating the Pregnancy Medicaid process can be a challenge. We are very familiar with helping moms find a doctor that will provide OBGYN care for you, no matter how late in the pregnancy. If you need help getting Medicaid set up, we do that, too.

We are familiar with area OBGYN’s that will help pregnant moms as they struggle with addiction while pregnant. As long as you are willing to take the hard steps to keep you and the baby safe, we can get you help. Methadone is a common approach but treatment with subutex and suboxone is a growing and needed trend, as well.

We are committed to having you make all the critical decisions about who you select to adopt your child. You tell us who are looking for: age, race, marital status, number of children, religion, employment, education, location, and family structure, and we will find you that family. Ultimately, you have to be 100% confident that you have selected the perfect family. Typically, we determine who you are looking for and then we search for families all across the United States to find families meeting your criteria looking to adopt. We then present to you a number of families that are very interested in adopting with you and you select them from their applications. A face-to-face meeting is set up and you decide if you made the right choice and they decide if they made the right choice. If everyone is on the same page, it is a match and the adoption plan is initiated. Typically, you will become pretty close to the adopting family while waiting for your due date and texting seems to be the choice of communication these days. You can make the decision by yourself but can certainly include your friends and family in the process. If the father is involved, he can join in the process, if that is your preference.

We provide counseling, at no cost to you, from a licensed mental health counselor before and after the birth of the child. We have learned that no matter how “ready” you think you are to handle an adoption plan, it is always a great benefit to meet with a counselor before and after to help you address some of the feelings and emotions that arise during the adoption process.

The amount of communication between you and the adopting family before, during and after the birth of the child is up to you. Some want distance and others want be to close. You tell us what you want and that is part of the process in selecting a family. If you want a closed adoption (no contact after the baby is born), we only look for families that are interested in closed adoption. If you want a semi-open adoption (update letters and pictures), we only look for families that are interested in semi-open adoptions. If you want to place the child with a family that is willing to maintain a private internet link with you (like a secure Facebook page), we will find families interested in that. Bottom line, we takes steps to predetermine what makes you comfortable and only locate families interested in that level of communication. When you can’t decide, we always say, “letters and pictures every three months for the first five years and then annually after that.”