This valuable resource provides answers to dilemmas including what to do if your baby is born with a disabling condition severe enough to question your ability as a parent for this child, and offers options that are open to you.

BIRTHMOTHERS: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies For Adoption Tell Their Stories
Jones, Merry B. 1993

Seventy women share their experiences of giving birth to a baby and placing that child for adoption. Each chapter presents a different issue such as the discovery of pregnancy, the actual birth, making an adoption plan, raising subsequent children and searching or being found. The stories in this book are ones that will inform, fascinate and deeply affect all those involved in the adoption triangle.