Dear Birthmother:

Having children is all we have wanted to do for a very, very long time.  With your help, together we can give the very best to a child:  a birthmother who makes the conscious and courageous choice to give a child the best life, and a loving family willing to do just that.

Let us tell you a little about ourselves.  We both work and are financially stable.  We are both very active in our community, volunteering for different organizations and running the local softball association.  Enjoying the outdoors is a huge part of our recreation, including fishing, golfing, hiking, camping, gem/rock hunting, gardening, grilling out, and walking our dog.  Our love of music has led us both to learn how to play the guitar.  We love to travel, and we can’t wait to take our children to all the places we went when we were kids.  Actually, we can’t wait to do a lot of things.  We can’t wait to play Santa Claus at Christmas and give that little wink to each other when our child asks for that special gift; will it be a Dollhouse or a Baseball Glove?  We can’t wait to potty-train, play hide-and-seek and wrestle in the mud together.  These are things that we look forward to every single day.

We are not choosy:  girl or boy, it doesn’t matter.  One or two or three, it doesn’t matter.  We want to be parents.  That is the single, most important goal for us.  That is all we wish for, and we are finally approaching that goal as adoption has opened a door that we thought at one time to be impossible.  Adoption has opened that amazing, incredible door, but it is you as a birthmother, and perhaps along with a birthfather, that would allow adoption to even be achievable.

You see, this is an opportunity.  You are not “giving up” a child.  You are giving a child a family who otherwise could not have any.  For whatever your reasons for deciding adoption, we thank you.  You are in the direct path to our dreams of parenthood, or someone else’s.  Maybe you don’t want to be a mom at this very moment, so you can choose to be a mom when the time is right for you.  The time for us is now, we just cannot biologically make a baby, but we are certain that we can be the best mommy and daddy.

No matter whom you choose to be the adoptive parents to the baby you are carrying, it surely will bring enormous joy to a loving couple.  That is the opportunity we were referring to—an opportunity that only you can give.

Respectfully,

Tricia & Shane