Adopted Love Celebrated All Month Long
While Valentine’s day is typically celebrated only on the 14th of February, here at Heart of Adoptions, we like to treat the whole month as a celebration of love. We celebrate romantic love, familial love, and even puppy love. And of course, we celebrate the love that adoption brings into our lives. The love that …
Employers Who Support Newborn Adoption, Florida
Over the past 20 years, it’s been amazing to see how businesses, large and small, have grown their employee benefits and added tremendous value to the lives of their “work family.” From extended parental leave to unlimited PTO, from ping-pong tables in the breakroom to subsidized wellness programs – the workplace today is not the …
Five Misconceptions About Choosing Adoption
Choosing adoption is an “easy way out.” If you talk to any woman who has placed a child for adoption, they would tell you that “giving my baby up for adoption was probably the hardest decision I’ve ever made.” Choosing adoption is far from easy. Instead, it’s the most selfless decision a woman can make. …
Open Adoption in Florida – Why It’s Important and How to Make It Work
For many years, most adoptions in Florida were closed adoptions. However, things have changed quite a bit in the last 20 years. Now, open adoption is more prevalent and is considered to be the healthiest of all post-adoption relationships. When women facing an unplanned pregnancy in Florida come to us, they often worry that placing …
Tips on Developing Patience
Patience. A trait we all wish we had an abundance of yet struggle to maintain daily. Well, maybe not everyone, but I know that most of you can agree with me. Patience is difficult on a typical day, between work, traffic, kids, stress – it all builds up so quickly. Now, on top of all …
Adoption Surrounds Us
I’ve been out on medical leave for some time now. It’s hard to share about that, but I would like to share the reactions that I get from people that I talk to. My particular medical treatments are daily and at the same time of day. As such, there are other individuals that go at …
Sometimes…
Sometimes you have a case that for whatever reason you will never forget. Sometimes it is because the adoptive family was so amazing in the way they loved the birth mother. Sometimes it is because of the choices a birth mother makes or things she does to ensure the best possible outcome and placement for …
Day in the Life of an Adoption Caseworker
Many days I am left juggling my various responsibilities, wife, mother, adoption social worker, etc. I wear so many more hats on a daily basis, but I wear these three nonstop and I wear them proudly. Even though these three responsibilities take up all of my time, they are my favorite three hats to wear …
Giving Thanks
This time of year is meant for reflecting on all that we have and giving thanks for those around us that make life that much better. Parents tend to give thanks to their children but do they thank the birth parents that brought that child into the world? Here is a wonderful article for your …
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Little Lucas is ready to go home!! Congratulations to our newest family #builtbylove , we are so excited for you! Please keep his birth mama in your thoughts and help us wish this new family well ❤️#adoptionislove #lovemakesafamily
We did a different kind of adoption in Tampa! This mama has been taking care of her 2 kittens behind our office for about a week and today all 3 of them went to their forever home! We are so happy they will get the care that they need and be able to stay together ❤️ A huge thank you to the St. Francis Rescue who did what they had to to make this happen. We appreciate you! #adoptionislove