HELLO IF ANY ONE CAN PLEASE SHARE SOME HELP OR EVEN TELL WHERE I CAN CALL WRITE EMAIL OR WHAT EVER TO GET A GRANT, MY STORY IS I AM A 31 YR OLD FEMALE WHO WANTS TO BE A MOM ME AND MY HUSBAND HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 4 YEARS AND WE CAN NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH AND IT ALL SEAMS TO FAIL WE TRIED FERTILITY PILLS, IVFS, EGG DONOR, EVEN TRIED ADOPTION AND SEEMS LIKE THERE IS NO END I PRAY EVERYNIGHT TO BECOME A MOM AND MY STORY GOES ON TO A SAY STORY THAT HAS NO END YET.

I felt like I was in a coma. 2005, I was pumping 200 times the hormones of a normal pregnant woman into her body every day, hoping an embryo would implant. I had spent years trying to have a baby and had gone through four in-vitro fertilizations.

The hormones thickened MY blood and left ME exhausted, sluggish. I risked a stroke or heart attack.

This fourth try at in-vitro would be their last.

Money for the $10,000 procedures was running out. So was hope that they’d ever have a child of their own.

The LOCAL MISSISSIPPI  couple had dreamed of joining the many newlyweds who start families right away. But as years passed and children didn’t come, they tried other ways to become parents.

Their desire would take them on a quest, a seemingly impossible journey of joy and anguish that would lead them across the country, chasing their last hope for a child. BY 2005, they were both 30 and decided they couldn’t wait any longer. They’d take matters into their own hands, find their own baby.

That spring, through connections at MY SISTERS church in INDIANA., they talked with a young couple in CONNERSVILLE  who agreed to let them adopt their baby.

They were BABYS  themselves, really. Pregnant with a little GIRL WE DIDN'T CARE AS LONG AS WE WAS BLESSED WITH A BABY THEY WERE  very scared, and with little commitment to each other.

The two couples talked on the phone and e-mailed back and forth. WE WENT TO INDIANA 12 HOURS AWAY  for a week, and the birth parents spent a week visiting US IN MISSISSIPPI. 

All four grew close.

“As soon as I met them for the first time, I knew it was meant to be; that he was going to be ours,”

WE  busied OUR selves buying baby items and preparing a nursery for ABIGALE , as they decided to call their DAUGHTER .

They cleared out the guest bedroom and painted it YELLOW  with PINK accents. I  pored over books about children’s brain development, learning what type of toys and discipline were appropriate for each stage.

I told everyone at church that their prayers were finally being answered.

The birth mother had even asked US  to be there when she delivered and agreed to call when it was time.

One midweek morning in 2005, the phone rang.

On the other end of the line was the young father’s mother, but she didn’t sound like an overjoyed new grandma should. The baby had come overnight, she said.

And the birth mom just couldn't do it — couldn't go through with the adoption.

They were sorry — so sorry, she said.

WE  sat together and cried among the bags they had packed for the trip to INDIANA

I curled up in her bed to weep. MY HUSBAND  went to THE GYM to LIFT t a couple hundred POUNDS.

Later, I  called their pastor and he came over to talk and pray by their side. the rest of that day and the ones that followed passed in a daze. I  isolated MY self to sort through MY  emotions. Friends and family sent cards expressing their condolences. They gave the couple gift certificates to go out to dinner and have some quiet time together.

About a week later, the birth mother called.

For the next month or two, WE  secretly kept thinking the newness would wear off and the young couple would call and offer them the baby.

Finally, she convinced herself they weren't going to change their minds.

"To me, it felt like I had had a baby and SHE  had died," she said. "I had been carrying HER around in my heart as if he had died." WELL THAT WAS THE END OF OUR JOUNEY WE COULD NOT TAKE NO MORE AND 2005 WAS ABOUT TO BE OVER SO WE THOUGHT MAYBE A NEW YEAR WELL LOOSING MY FATHER IN FEBUARY AND MY HUSBAND MOTHER 1 MONTH AGO I FEEL AS I NEED TO TRY ONE MORE TIME SO HERE WE ARE AND WE SEEKING ANY ADVICE, HELP, DONATION ANY THING OR IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO ADOPT THERE BABY WE WOULD BE BLESSED WE ARE LOVING HONORABLE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE PARENTS.

GOD BLESS

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Hi Guys, I’m a fun loving, optimistic Picean. I love to read, write poetry, take walks in the woods, go to amusement parks, and anything that would involve nature, children, and an all around good time. Okay, so that sounds like a personal ad..LOL, but really, I also enjoy fleamarkets, yardsales, thrift stores oh yeah and E-BAY of course!

I work full time as a receptionist and I sell costume jewelry and other odds and ends on Ebay. I am a full figured woman so I also enjoy running my own Plus size clothing recycle group here in Georgia via the internet. Ladies can list items they would like to give away or receive totally free!

My husband and I look forward to moving out of our cramped 1 bedroom apartment in the next year or so into a new house. We also look forward to opening our arms via adoption to an child....or children...God's will.

We are in need of financial assistance in order to off-set the Legal Fees being incurred with the adoption of our daughter.  My husband works, however our regular bills/rent, etc. prevents us from paying the $600 we currently owe our Lawyer; which in turn is preventing us from moving forward with the adoption process.

Any assistance that can be given will be greatly appreciated.

So I get on this site thinking hey just maybe there is nice people out there and maybe there is but not for me I was supposed to be leaving tomorrow to go see the daughter that i had almost ten years ago and havent seen since she was 9 mos old she called me begging to be a room mom for her valentine show and since neither i nor my fiancee are able to work right now I really didnt have the money to go and I found this page well I was contacted by someone calling themselves pastor paddy and  HE SENT ME A CHECK ALRIGHT BUT IT WAS A STOLEN CHECK FROM THE RENE MOAWAD FOUNDATION NOW HES HARRASING ME AND THREATNING ME AND NOBODY ELSE WILL TURN HIM IN SO THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS I DONT GET TO SEE MY DAUGHTER WICH BY THE WAY SHE HATES ME NOW AND I HAVE SOME IDIOT THREATNING MY LIFE SO THIS IS A LESSON HOPEFULLY SOMEONE ELSE WONT HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT I DID

I am in need of newbornan baby stuff for my new baby girl. She was born on June 30th 2007. My friend had a baby boy 3 years ago and did not want him. I adopted him, and he is now 3 years old. She just had a babygirl, and did not want her aswell. I adopted her too, so they can be together and in a good Christian Home. Im 29 and my husband is 30. He is a youth minister and we are very active in the church. We have two girls of our own, they are 8 years old and 9 years old. So we have our hands full. Both babies were born with crack cocain in their systems. I need help with clothes for all of my children. Please if any one could help witrh anything I would appreciate it. We both do work, but have another baby was unexpected. I cant afford anything right now, with all the bills I have to pay. I just need some temporary assistance so I can catch up. Diapers and formula are so expensive. And school is about to start for my daughters, and I cant afford clothes for them. I know this was a hard decision for me. But I wanted to give these babies a home and lots of LOVE. I live in Spring, Texas. My name is Cassie.

HELLO IF ANY ONE CAN PLEASE SHARE SOME HELP OR EVEN TELL WHERE I CAN CALL WRITE EMAIL OR WHAT EVER TO GET A GRANT, MY STORY IS I AM A 31 YR OLD FEMALE WHO WANTS TO BE A MOM ME AND MY HUSBAND HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 4 YEARS AND WE CAN NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH AND IT ALL SEAMS TO FAIL WE TRIED FERTILITY PILLS, IVFS, EGG DONOR, EVEN TRIED ADOPTION AND SEEMS LIKE THERE IS NO END I PRAY EVERYNIGHT TO BECOME A MOM AND MY STORY GOES ON TO A SAY STORY THAT HAS NO END YET.

I felt like I was in a coma. 2005, I was pumping 200 times the hormones of a normal pregnant woman into her body every day, hoping an embryo would implant. I had spent years trying to have a baby and had gone through four in-vitro fertilizations.

The hormones thickened MY blood and left ME exhausted, sluggish. I risked a stroke or heart attack.

This fourth try at in-vitro would be their last.

Money for the $10,000 procedures was running out. So was hope that they’d ever have a child of their own.

The LOCAL MISSISSIPPI  couple had dreamed of joining the many newlyweds who start families right away. But as years passed and children didn’t come, they tried other ways to become parents.

Their desire would take them on a quest, a seemingly impossible journey of joy and anguish that would lead them across the country, chasing their last hope for a child. BY 2005, they were both 30 and decided they couldn’t wait any longer. They’d take matters into their own hands, find their own baby.

That spring, through connections at MY SISTERS church in INDIANA., they talked with a young couple in CONNERSVILLE  who agreed to let them adopt their baby.

They were BABYS  themselves, really. Pregnant with a little GIRL WE DIDN'T CARE AS LONG AS WE WAS BLESSED WITH A BABY THEY WERE  very scared, and with little commitment to each other.

The two couples talked on the phone and e-mailed back and forth. WE WENT TO INDIANA 12 HOURS AWAY  for a week, and the birth parents spent a week visiting US IN MISSISSIPPI. 

All four grew close.

“As soon as I met them for the first time, I knew it was meant to be; that he was going to be ours,”

WE  busied OUR selves buying baby items and preparing a nursery for ABIGALE , as they decided to call their DAUGHTER .

They cleared out the guest bedroom and painted it YELLOW  with PINK accents. I  pored over books about children’s brain development, learning what type of toys and discipline were appropriate for each stage.

I told everyone at church that their prayers were finally being answered.

The birth mother had even asked US  to be there when she delivered and agreed to call when it was time.

One midweek morning in 2005, the phone rang.

On the other end of the line was the young father’s mother, but she didn’t sound like an overjoyed new grandma should. The baby had come overnight, she said.

And the birth mom just couldn't do it — couldn't go through with the adoption.

They were sorry — so sorry, she said.

WE  sat together and cried among the bags they had packed for the trip to INDIANA

I curled up in her bed to weep. MY HUSBAND  went to THE GYM to LIFT t a couple hundred POUNDS.

Later, I  called their pastor and he came over to talk and pray by their side. the rest of that day and the ones that followed passed in a daze. I  isolated MY self to sort through MY  emotions. Friends and family sent cards expressing their condolences. They gave the couple gift certificates to go out to dinner and have some quiet time together.

About a week later, the birth mother called.

For the next month or two, WE  secretly kept thinking the newness would wear off and the young couple would call and offer them the baby.

Finally, she convinced herself they weren't going to change their minds.

"To me, it felt like I had had a baby and SHE  had died," she said. "I had been carrying HER around in my heart as if he had died." WELL THAT WAS THE END OF OUR JOUNEY WE COULD NOT TAKE NO MORE AND 2005 WAS ABOUT TO BE OVER SO WE THOUGHT MAYBE A NEW YEAR WELL LOOSING MY FATHER IN FEBUARY AND MY HUSBAND MOTHER 1 MONTH AGO I FEEL AS I NEED TO TRY ONE MORE TIME SO HERE WE ARE AND WE SEEKING ANY ADVICE, HELP, DONATION ANY THING OR IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO ADOPT THERE BABY WE WOULD BE BLESSED WE ARE LOVING HONORABLE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE PARENTS.

GOD BLESS

I'm a 40-'ish mother in the process, along with my husband, of adopting our only child.  She became the light of my life the moment I heard her heart beat during a sonogram.  This child of mine has been such a joy and delight in our lives.  Every day has been a new adventure - I love her, as I tell her, to Infinity AND Beyond !

Unfortunately, we're anticipating that her adoption is now going to be contested and we'll incur Legal Fees beyond our resources.  We need assistance in our to adopt this wonderful, joyful little girl (age 2) who has been in our care since she left the hospital.

I thank you in advance for your assistance & cooperation in this matter.

Respectfully,

Crystal

I am in desparte need of some help with my infertility process. I was recently told that the only chance I have to mother a child is through invitro. that cost alot of money> Iam looking for grants that can help me pay for the process and allow my dreams to  come true. Or I am looking for an adoption grant for a new born baby or under 1 years old. heathly child. I am cluely on which ways to go. can anyone help me?

UNIQUE APPAREL & GIFTS FOR WAITING FAMILIES AND FRIENDs. Just because you are not showing does not mean that you are not a mom-to-be! Let the world know that you too are expecting a baby by adoption with these Paper Pregnant items!

I am a single mom with low income seeking grants for various reasons.  I am 31 and am wanting to return to college full time to further my education and career.  I am also like so many other americans and suffer from debt and looking to clean up my debt to gain respectable credit so I may one day be able to buy a home of our own.  I would like to also one day be able to have my own business so after working so hard can have more time and money to support my son.  My son and I would also like to adopt a child so that he may have a sibling, and I can help another child grow up in a loving environment.

My name is Robin. My husband and I have been trying for four years to concieve a child. The doctors are telling us we can only concieve if we have an IVF treatment. The dilemma is that our insurance company does not cover such a procedure. It is amazing that it cost a few hundred to kill a fetus and a couple of thousands to create one....

Any financial help is welcome

Much respect

Robin

ME AND MY WIFE HAVE ADOPTED 2 SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN AND WE WERE WANTING TO KNOW IF THERE WAS ANY GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE SO WE COULD ADD ON TO OUR HOME SO WE COULD ADOPT MORE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN

•  533,000

•  10.2

• 18.1 months = @ 1 1/2 yrs

• Black/non-hispanic - 37% - 195,425
• White/non-hispanic -  39% - 205,769

• male: 52%
  
• female: 48%
  

• During  2005, an estimated 1,460 children (not in foster care)  (compared to 1,490 children for FFY 2004) died from abuse or neglect.   link

• Three-quarters (76.6%) of child fatalities were caused by one or more parents
• Some children who died from maltreatment were already known to CPS agencies.

This is our situation. My husband and I are in debt around $60,000. We got married when I was young and still in college. We were married one and a half years when I got pregnant, with our twins. I was extremely sick and in the hospital much of my pregnancy. I had to quit work and college. We accumulated lots of medical bills. Our boys came about 6 weeks early and were in the NICU for 10 days. But, they were healthy and it was wonderful to have them. I went back to school, but we couldn’t afford much. So we paid on our medical bills and bought groceries and other necessities with our credit cards. When the boys were 3 and I was done with school and working, I became pregnant again, but miscarried. Over the course of the next 6 years, I had 10 more pregnancies, 10 more miscarriages and 9 D&C’s. I also had many doctor’s appointments and many tests and medicines. This also cost a lot of money. My husband and I both teach and would work summer jobs and do what we could to earn more money. Then a friend told us her niece was pregnant and was looking for a family to adopt her baby. We got into contact with her and met with the social worker at the agency and did adopt her little girl. Our daughter Isabella was born in 2002 and we are all thrilled to have her. We are now financially stable and have taken out a loan to pay off the credit card debt without having the outrageous annual percentage rates. We pay over $900 a month and are on a strict monthly budget. Due to this we have not been able to save money for our children’s college education or buy a home, we rent, because that is what we can afford. Of course, there are many other things we would love to provide our children, but an education and a home are our top priorities. We should be done paying our debt in about 7 years, but the boys will be in college by then. Here is the twist though, that brings me to this point that I am asking for help. We just found out that our daughter’s birthmother is pregnant again. She is due in July and she wants us to adopt this baby, a boy. We said, “Of course!” We don’t have a lot of money and this will make things harder, but we have a lot of love and our situation is drastically better than hers. We love our children and feel that we can provide a stable and loving environment. But, I am worried about “staying afloat” financially. My husband and I both have our masters’ degrees, but we don’t have much opportunity to earn more money in our teaching jobs. It is enough, but due to our circumstances and the medical issues that we had to deal with earlier in our marriage, we are still paying for that and it is keeping us from being able to help our children and to secure a solid future for them.

I would be happy to  send more information, if you think that you or someone you know may be or would be willing to help us. I do not like to ask, but am not sure what else to do.

This is a simplistic view of our family and situation, but I hope it gives you enough insight to see a bit into our family.

Thank you so much for at least taking the time to read this letter and respond to me.

Have you ever felt like you were being chased by debt? Like you were running with the bulls in Pamplona. It's a horrible feeling knowing you're just a hair ahead of being trampled. In May of 06' my husband had been working for a freight company for nearly 2 months. He had recently left a demeaning job as a janitor in a pornography shop earning $7 per hour. Now he was earning $14 per hour, and working 12 hours a night 5 days per week, we had finally begun to get far ahead of the bulls. On June 8th, the bulls caught up with us and trampled us deep into the dirt. My husband lost his job. Things are looking brighter now. We have begun to plan our future again. Times are still hard as well are still paying off debts we acquired during that down time, but we pray that relief from the chains of debt are not far off.  If you are reading this, and would like to be an answer to this prayer, first God bless you. If you are willing and able we do not seek much. Even the paying of one utility bill would help get us far ahead of the bulls. And the blessing of paying our rent or car note for one month would certainly get us on the right track towards seeing that brighter future sooner. Thank you ever so much for listening to my story. If my story has touched you in someway, please let me know. God Bless and keep you!

Our daughter has cerebral palsy and needs a special outpatient procedure a.s.a.p.  Because we adopted her before we knew she had CP, and we are self employed , no one will insure her. We also live overseas serving a small Christian mission and are only here in the USA for a short time. We are desperate to give her the treatment she needs, and we'd happily provide doctor bills and proof that the money contributed went straight to the hospital and specialist. Thank you so much. In a quandry, mom of Jasmine, three on 3/21/04--not walking yet but we've all got high hopes

Mother of 5 year old with Leukemia and Developmental delays. I am needing help with transportation costs and related expenses of getting him back and forth to do the doctor and therapy sessions.

Okay, here goes.

We met 10 years ago, married almost 7. We each have 6 adult kids. 3 years ago we decided we have lots of room in our home and hearts for a child of our own and began the process of adopting a little boy from Russia. It was love at first sight. He was 9 months old. It was late November, and my husband turned 50 during the trip! We thought we'd have him home by Christmas. Little did we know it would be 9 more months before we got him home. The longest 9 months you can imagine.

We missed him so very much, so much so I travelled alone to spent time with him again, and spent 3 weeks in Siberia in late March of 2004. We finally brought our son home in September 2004 at the age of 20 months. 9 months. We were thrilled, yet the faces of the children we left behind haunted us endlessly. We are not wealthy, and will likely be paying off college loans til my husband retires (I have chosen to stay at home and raise my son). Still, something burned deep inside and we decided to return to Russia for another child. We were thrilled to learn that our son had a biological baby brother available for adoption! We petitioned the court to make him our son, and returned home. That was June 2005. It has been 2 years, 2 weeks, 6 days, and 2 additional trips to be with him. The little boy, the biological brother of our now 4.5 year old son, who was 10 months old when we met him, will be 3 soon and we still do not have a court date. This region is very difficult to adopt from. Financially, we chose to adopt independently this time, but bot adoptions have already cost us well over $40K.  Each time we return we fill our bags to the maximum with donations for the children we have left behind, who stand little or no chance of finding a forever family. We have so much and have nothing. When we were there at Christmas time we were invited to the Orphange Holiday Performance. At the end of the show, "Father Frost" (Their version of Santa) passed out gifts to the all the children (a banana and a piece of chocolate). They were thrilled, yet sadly, this is all they would be getting. A banana and one chocolate!

Now, here's my plea:  I would love to pay off my $40K debt, and "pay it forward". So, I am proposing and promising that for every dollar we receive, 1 ruble will be donated to the orphanage where my son lived until he came home to us, and where the youngest still lives, and waits for us. With the exchange rate, $40,000 would mean I would donate in all your names, about $1600 to the orphanage.

But it goes beyond that. You see, most of the $40K was our first adoption, using an agency - when were clueless about international adoption. This time, the costs are minimal. Our hope is erase as much of our debt as possible and put us into a position where we can "reasonably" think about another child.

Does anyone know of any foundations or grants that are available to those willing to help women in crisis and in need of Doula services?  I am a Doula and help those women who need education on pregnancy and do not have some one in their lives that can help them.  I do my services free of charge.  I am trying to study to get by Doula certificate and I am looking for some funding support.   

Giving birth to a baby is so much more than a physical phenomenon; it engages parents-to-be in a transformational experience, a key life event full of emotion and meaning. A doula who accompanies a woman in labor mothers the mother, taking care of her emotional needs throughout childbirth. A doula also provides support and suggestions for partners that can enhance their experiences of birth. A postpartum doula continues that valuable emotional support and guidance, helping a family make a smooth transition into new family dynamics.  Doulas are educated and knowledgeable about childbirth and the postpartum experience. They are advocates and a listening ear for birthing mothers, as well as facilitators to her partner. When a family goes home with a new baby, a postpartum doula supports every member and the family unit as a whole.

hi me and my husband would love to adopt a child but it is so exspensive to do this any body looking for someone to adopt your child newborn to 6years of age please email me at wanda7294@yahoo.com thank you weve been married 17 years and we are foster family thanks wanda

HI,

I KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT THE KIND OF HELP PEOPLE USUALLY ASK FOR ON HERE. I WAS TOLD WHEN YOU WANT TO DO A PRIVATE ADOPTION TO NETWORK. MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ADOPT FOR OVER A YEAR NOW. I AM 34 AND MY HUSBAND IS 36. WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR NINE YEARS. MY HUSBAND HAS HIS MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND I AM A STAY AT HOME MOM. WE HAVE LOTS OF ROOM IN OUR HOME AND IN OUR HEARTS FOR A BABY. I KNOW IN MY HEART WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GIVE A BABY A GOOD AND LOVING HOME. SO IF ANYONE KNOWS OF SOMEONE LOOKING FOR AN ADOPTIVE FAMILY I WOULD LOVE TO GET TO KNOW THEM. WE WOULD MAKE SURE THEIR BABY GETS EVERYTHING THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER AND WE WILL LOVE THE BABY UNCONDITIONALLY. ANYONE WHO HAS TAKEN THE TIME TO READ THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH.

MY HUSBAND AND I REALLY WANT ONE MORE BABY.

WE HAVE DECIDED TO ADOPT BECAUSE THERE ARE ALREADY CHILDREN IN THE WORLD THAT NEED TO BE LOVED.

PLEASE HELP US FIND OUR ANGEL.

LOVE,

MICHELLE