• Meet Jessica

    Jessica is an amazing woman with a whole lot of wisdom to share. She's our next contributor to Being A Birth Mom. Meet Jessica... Hi There! My name is Jessica;

  • Celebrating Birthdays

    Hey friends! I write to you with such joy in my heart. This week I have several friends with children having birthdays. It’s such a joy to celebrate life! And

  • Lion: Now playing – plus 3 things we loved about the film

    Lion, which is based on a true story, is simultaneously heart-warming and heart-wrenching. Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from

  • Being a birth mom is part of my story – not my whole identity

    If you ask me about myself; I will tell you I am a wife, and a mama to 4 kiddos, I will say that I love Jesus and journaling, and

  • Meet Kaedra

    Meet Kaedra! Our next Being A Birth Mom contributor... I placed my son for adoption 14 years ago, in 2002. I was 19, and I knew that was the very

  • Expectations in Adoption

    As humans we’re accustomed to having expectations. We expect drivers to stay in their lane. We expect stores to stay open until they say they are going to. We like to

  • Meet Abby

    Meet Abby - our next contributor to Being a Birth Mom! We met Abby this summer at a conference in Dallas, TX. After meeting Abby, there are two things we

  • Still Saying “Still”

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I respond to people when they find out that I’m a birth mother. It’s interesting to think about my natural response because

  • birth PARENTING

    The idea of birth parent seems so weird sometimes. It can make me feel like an alien species that none of the “normal” population can understand. I just have to

  • Meet Michelle

    BraveLove is excited to announce the start of something NEW! We are launching a birth mom editorial column called Being a Birth Mom - a special space for birth moms from