Are You Pregnant

Are you pregnant? Are you pregnant but not ready for the life-changing experience of raising a child? A child is a huge responsibility and can take precedence over one's lifelong educational goals and also require a lot of financial and emotional resources. As a pregnant woman, there are three options: being a single parent, abortion and adoption.

For someone who feels unprepared for a child but doesn't want to have an abortion, adoption is the best alternative and ensures the child is placed with a loving family that are prepared to support him or her.

You may be wondering how to begin the process of finding a family to place with. As a future birth mother, you have the right to choose however you want to approach the adoption process. You can be involved in the process of interviewing couples and finding one that aligns with your personal morals or to only handling the adoption facilitated by a case worker or attorney. Although a closed agency adoption is preferred by some pregnant women, many future birth mothers find comfort in semi-open and open adoptions as they get to know the personalities of the child's prospective parents.

Birth mothers can also work independently by searching for parent profiles or posting their own personal ads, however, agencies are some of the biggest birth mother advocates and many women feel safer working with a private agency.

As a future birth mother, you may have the right to receive counseling to help deal with the difficult affections coming with the highly stigmatized unplanned pregnancy. You also are not bound to finalizing the adoption until after the birth of the child and should familiarize yourself with your state's laws to stay smart and never feel pressured.