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  1. how i got this baby
    The NICU Nurse Who Adopted Her Patient“I had helped deliver dozens of babies, but there was something about this one.”
    As told to Kristen Mascia
  2. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Fostered 24 Kids and Adopted One“Dropping off my first foster baby was crushing. A couple days later, I found a rogue baby sock and broke down. I was really surprised by the grief.”
    As told to Kristen Mascia
  3. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Became a Foster Parent After a Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy“I had feared getting attached to a child and then losing them, but now I had a new mindset.”
    As told to L'Oreal Thompson Payton
  4. first person
    Looking for the Woman Who Made UsAfter a lifetime apart, my brothers and I went searching for our biological mother. Instead, we found a family we never could have imagined.
    By Casey Kahn
  5. family
    ‘People Say, You Sold Your Baby’How Utah became the most exploitative state in private adoption.
    By Gabrielle Glaser
  6. family
    Why Did These YouTubers Give Away Their Son?Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.
    By Caitlin Moscatello
  7. how i got this baby
    The Dads Who Adopted a Nonverbal 7-Year-Old With Autism“It was quite a frightening undertaking, to be honest. I remember thinking, Can we really handle this?”
    As told to Yolanda Wikiel
  8. q&a
    The Untold Stories of Birth MothersGretchen Sisson interviewed more than 100 women who placed their children for adoption. Almost all of them felt misled about the process.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  9. esther calling
    ‘How Do I Have a Relationship With My Birth Mother Without Survivor’s Guilt?’“You don’t become a healer to numb your own feelings,” says Esther Perel. “The question is whether you want to take care of her.”
    By Esther Perel
  10. adoption
    Michael Oher Doesn’t Have to Be Grateful to the TuohysAngela Tucker, a transracial adoptee and mentor, on the impact of The Blind Side and the reaction to Oher’s claim that it was based on a lie.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  11. first person
    The First Baby I LovedWhen an adoption match turned unexpectedly complicated, we were faced with our first-ever parenting decision — and our hardest.
    By Katie Nugent
  12. power
    What the Media Gets Wrong About Adoption NarrativesRoxanna Asgarian’s book on the 2018 murder of six adopted children focuses on their birth parents and the broken child-welfare system.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  13. as told to
    ‘I Was Adopted by Forced Birthers’An adoptee wishes their birth mother had been given a choice.
    As told to Bindu Bansinath
  14. nuclear families
    The Necessary Will of Lesbian MothersThe queer family in the 1980s lived under threat of siege.
    By Sarah Schulman
  15. the cut podcast
    Transracial Adoptees Are Tired of TVFinding characters and story lines that reflect the complexities of growing up in white families is almost impossible.
    By the Cut
  16. it’s a dog’s market
    It’s a Dog’s MarketAdopting used to be a good thing that good people could do. These days, you’re probably not good enough.
    By Allie Conti
  17. influencers
    Popular Mommy Vlogger Admits She ‘Rehomed’ Her Adopted SonYouTuber Myka Stauffer is facing backlash after announcing the decision in a new video.
    By Amanda Arnold
  18. parenting
    Hoda Kotb Has Adopted Another Baby Girl!She shared the happy news on Today.
    By Lisa Ryan
  19. new mom
    How We Got These BabiesTwenty women tell their stories.
  20. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Thought She Was Finally PregnantInstead, her symptoms meant something very different.
    By the Cut
  21. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Wasn’t Sure a Birth Mother Would Choose Her Family“When the mother has an obvious disability, she’s probably not the mother you would pick for your child.”
    By the Cut
  22. how i got this baby
    How I Got This Baby: The Mom Who Didn’t Go Into Foster Parenting BlindlyIn this Week’s How I Got This Baby, a couple who made a tough decision about their first foster daughter, then adopted four children.
    By the Cut
  23. how i got this baby
    The Trans Man Who Didn’t Expect to Enjoy Being PregnantThis week’s How I Got This Baby.
    By the Cut
  24. how i got this baby
    The Birth Mom With No RegretsThis week’s How I Got This Baby.
    By the Cut
  25. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Didn’t Want to Try IVF AgainIn this week’s How I Got This Baby, a woman whose foster kids made her yearn for a child.
    By the Cut
  26. celebrity babies
    Younger’s Sutton Foster and Husband Welcome a Baby GirlEmily Dale Griffin was born on March 5.
    By Jenni Miller
  27. Madonna Has Adopted Twin Girls From MalawiShe’s adopted 4-year-old twins Stella and Esther.
    By Lisa Ryan
  28. a chance at a family
    IVF and Adoption Costs Will Finally Be Covered for Wounded VeteransVeterans Affairs is finally covering the costs.
    By Lisa Ryan
  29. motherhood
    I’m White. My 4-Year-Old Son’s Black. How Do We Talk About ‘Bad Guys’?Why did my preschooler ask if a black biker were “bad”?
    By Kera Bolonik
  30. mothers day 2016
    Getting a Foster Mom Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to MeHow a teenage African refugee and a California mom built a relationship from scratch.
    As told to Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
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