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Adoption: LIfe in a Maternity Home


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Published Dec 30, 2005 by Terri Rimmer
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More birth moms live at home now than before?
Takeaways
· Author lived in a maternity home for nine months.
· Author has a semi-open adotpion arrangement.
· Maternity home has house parents.
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In August 2000 I placed my daughter for adoption shortly after she was born because I couldn't take care of her.
Luckily it is a semi-open adoption which means I get letters, pictures, cards, gifts, emails, videos; etc. and I send the same.

I have even gotten to see my daughter twice a year starting a few years ago.

I remembered when I moved in to the maternity home how I'd never seen so much food in my life. It was like the Garden of Eden, I joked to myself. For the first time ever I didn't have to worry about where my next meal was coming from. It was an awesome feeling, one that I got to have for nine months.

I remembered the house parents took me and my fellow birth moms who lived there out for ice cream on the 4th of July and to Trinity Park to watch the fireworks and how everyone stared at us as always.

At the ice cream parlor one of the residents who'd had her baby in June made a face in the window as we were leaving and tried to scare the people who were staring. All the residents laughed. As obnoxious as the resident was, I had to laugh.

For once we had the last laugh when gawked at.

When we got to the park to watch the fireworks, there were no nearby bathrooms so a group of us had to walk across huge boulders from one end of the river to the other than hike up a steep hill to a restaurant to use their restroom.

We weren't too happy about it but took it all in stride as we headed across the slick rocks behind the crowds of people doing the same thing. The difference was we didn't have much balance because we were pregnant and had to hang on to each other while kids played and splashed around beside us and adults just merely stared.

I, however, was completely furious about the whole thing and silently cursed the male house parent who didn't take into account when parking the van about the location of the rest rooms and the fact that we residents were hugely pregnant and didn't have much strength to walk far.

When we made it back to our seats and settled on our blankets on the steep hill overlooking the river, a group of people gawked at us and whispered for what seemed like an eternity.

I started doing what I saw a resident do once and some other residents now joined me. Every time the crowd would stare I'd stare them down. Once I did this, they quickly averted their eyes.

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