READING SUGGESTIONS

 

Dear Birthmother, Thank You For Our Baby
By Kathleen Silber, MSW and Phylis Speedlin, Esq.
Copyright 1998
Corona Publishing Company, San Antonio, Texas
 

 
PREGNANCY SERVICES

 

Adoption as an Option (Q&A)

Open Adoption
Legal Rights
Reading Suggestions
Web Resources
Support Groups
Dear Birthfather
By Randolph Severson, PH.D.
Copyright 1992
Hope Cottage
 

Given In Love
By Maureen Connelly
Copyright 1990
Centering Corporation, Omaha, Nebraska
 

Nurturing The Unborn Child
By Thomas Verny, M.D. and Pamela Weintraub
Copyright 1992
Dell Publishing, New York, New York
 
Out of the Shadows:  Birthfather Stories
By Mary M. Mason
Copyright 1995
OJ Howard Publishing
 
   
Pregnant?  Adoption is an Option
By Jeanne W. Lindsay
Copyright 1996
Morning Glory Press, Buena Park, California
 
Saying Goodbye to a Baby:  Volume 1 - The Birthparent's Guide to Loss and Grief in Adoption
By Patricia Roles, MSW
Copyright 1989
Child Welfare League of America, Washington D.C.
 
The Open Adoption Experience
By Lois Ruskai Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia
Copyright 1993
HarperCollins, New York, New York
 
   
The Other Mother
By Carol Schaefer
Copyright 1991
Soho Press, New York, New York
 
 
The Spirit of Open Adoption
By James L. Gritter
Copyright 1997
Child Welfare League of America, Washington D.C.
 
 
A Kindness
By Cynthia Ryland
 
   
Pregnant and Single
By Carolyn Owen and Linda Roggow
 
   
Should I Keep My Baby
By Martha Zimmerman
 
   
Bittersweet
By Gay Lewis
 
   
The Face in the Mirror; Teenagers & Adoption
By Marion Crook
 
   
I Hope You Have a Good Life
By Campbell Armstrong
 
   
The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow
By Jane Guttman, D.C.
 
   
Waiting to Forget; A Motherhood Lost & Found
By Margaret Moorman
 
   
Soul Connection; Memoir of a Birthmother's Healing Journey
By Anne H. Hughes
 
   
To Love & Let Go
By Suzanne Arms
 
   
The Third Choice
By Leslie Foge and Gail Mosconi
 
   
I See the Moon
By C. B. Christiansen
(appropriate for birthparent sibling)