How does Adoption Consultants, Inc. handle an initial telephone call from a birthmother and what happens thereafter?
In a caring and non-judgmental manner, the office inquires into a variety of sensitive areas, such as a birthmother’s reasons for considering adoption, expected due date, degree of birth father involvement, general health/pre-natal care, ethnicity of birth parents, any pregnancy related living expense financial needs, need for financial medical assistance, substance use (drugs, alcohol, smoking), if she has considered other options, as well as how her family and friends, as well as the birth father’s family, have or might react to her plans for adoption to help assess her commitment toward adoption. A birthmother is provided with information about adoption and the adoptive process, and asked what is important to her in finding the right adoptive family for her baby/child. The office is available to personally meet with local birthmothers to further discuss adoption, help them create an adoption plan that best fits their emotional needs and comfort level, and to share prospective adopti
