Lifemother's Newsletter

April

Happy Spring!! After taking a month off from the Lifemothers' newsletter (I've been so busy!), it's good to be back with new updates! As always, looking for new stories, writings, poems, and book reviews. To see what I've been busy with lately, scoll down!

Adoption Songs: check out the new & still-growing Adoption Songs page!!

Birthmom's Day: Love it or hate it, Birthmother's Day is fast approaching !!

Birth Day List: Due to lack of interest, this list is closed. Please no longer send in your child's birthday.

Skye's Writing: New writing by yours truly - one of my favorites and most personal poems, Burial: the fifth year, which is very symbolic to the varying emotions I feel as an open adoption birthmom. Open adoption is not a band-aid for the pain of adoption, no matter how open ...there is still grief and loss.

Your Writings: Jenna, recent birthmom and April's lifemom of the month sent us, Forever in my Heart & Staci wrote a moving poem called, Forever With Me !!

Faves: Hands down one of my most favorite lifemom poems ... Pink Baby by Caitlin !!

Featured: An interview that I did with Birthmom Bud's co-founder, Nicole (fondly known as Coley) about her new adoption brochures for medical professionals. Read interview here: Defining Adoption For Medical Professionals

Stories: Kristin is sharing her touching story with us, Never Unwanted !!

Books: Birthmoms (and anyone) can now purchase through my site, www.birthparentgifts.com, A Birthparent's Book of Memories, and One Birthmother's Emotional Truth - all seperately from the giftbasktes !!

Lifemom of the Month: Check out April!

Book Review: Author, open adoption educator, & birthmom Brenda Romanchik's book review of the book Adoption Healing by Joe Soll - feel free to send in your reviews of adoption books too !!

Typo: Sorry, I gave the wrong URL for my review of the new book, Sam's Sister, for the children of birthmoms. You can read the review HERE, and scroll down. Thanks!

What's a Lifemother?: My writing, Why I Chose Lifemother, about why I use lifemother over birthmother, and what lifemother means to me!

What's Skye been up to?: Here are two personal sites of mine, the first is a new non-profit project I am working on for local moms, www.mommiesmemories.com & www.workofheartphoto.com !!