Learn About Your Options
Whether you’re a pregnant woman worried about how your drug use will affect your baby or a grandparent caring for your grandchild, we can help.
Are you wondering how drugs will affect your baby’s health? Or how your child will grow, having been exposed to drugs in the early stages of development? These are questions you might have already asked yourself. We are hoping to give you some answers and new perspectives.
Help While Pregnant
“I got prescribed hydrocodone for the pain from an injury. Well, I quickly got addicted to taking the pills every day. I couldn’t make myself stop! Eventually, I couldn’t afford my habit anymore. Then, I discovered I was pregnant. I realize I need to get help because I have no idea how I’d parent a baby…”
If you can relate to this woman’s story, you’re not alone. We can help. When you’re pregnant and addicted, you still have a choice and a say in your baby’s future! If you choose to make an adoption plan, you’re able to hand-pick the adoptive parents for your baby. You have lots of choices with open adoption, like the option of having ongoing contact with your child. Adoption will allow you to avoid Child Protective Services butting into your life.
Choosing adoption allows you to provide your baby what you’re not able to right now. They’ll grow up with two loving, stable parents and have many opportunities in life. Some might say, “How could you give up your baby for adoption?!” The truth is, adoption isn’t giving your baby away. It’s giving him or her the very best life that you possibly can.
Drug Use
We can refer you to an experienced adoption professional who has worked with women dealing with a variety of life situations, including drug abuse.
They’ve helped many women find the perfect adoptive family for their baby who had prenatal exposure to drugs. Many hopeful adoptive families are ready to adopt a baby who was exposed to drugs during development. And, there are many success stories of these babies who grew into healthy kids and are doing well with their adoptive parents. We think this is important to share with you so you can consider all your options and make better choices for your unborn baby, newborn, infant, or young child.
Adoption
By creating an adoption plan, you’re able to have a say in your child’s future. Adoption empowers you to make choices, such as choosing the adoptive parents for your child. It also allows you to know how your child is doing through pictures and letters from the adoptive family. Many adoptive families are even open to visits! Making an adoption plan is better than leaving your child to the state because the choices are still yours to make with adoption. If you’re currently using, having an adoption plan allows you to avoid having Child Protective Services step in and disrupt those plans
We can refer you to an experienced adoption professional who has worked with women dealing with a variety of life situations, including drug abuse. They’ve helped many women find the perfect adoptive family for their baby who had prenatal exposure to drugs. Many hopeful adoptive families are ready to adopt a baby who was exposed to drugs during development. And, there are many success stories of these babies who grew into healthy kids and are doing well with their adoptive parents. We think this is important to share with you so you can consider all your options and make better choices for your unborn baby, newborn, infant, or young child. Click here to learn about Open Adoption.
My Daughter is Pregnant and Using
You might be a grandparent who’s stepped up to help raise your grandchild due to the opioid epidemic. Maybe you’re physically unable to care for the child. Or perhaps you’re already caring for one of your grand kids and can’t raise any more. If this sounds like you, we can help. Across the country, more than one million grandparents are rearing grandchildren as the number of “children of the opioid crisis” increases. Most grandparents are pushed into the role suddenly, with a phone call informing them that they need to pick up the child or else the child will end up in foster care. At a moment’s notice, these grandparents are forced to meet the challenges of children who have come into their home, after experiencing trauma.
Drug Effects
If you are pregnant and addicted to drugs find out how different drugs effect the health of your unborn baby.
Help & Support
We compiled some ideas and resources that can help you learn how to get clean and live a healthy lifestyle during and after your pregnancy.
Open Adoption
What to do if you are pregnant and suffer from drug addiction? Open Adoption is one of the possibilities.
