Adoption in Colorado: You Are in Control of Your Adoption Plan
Adoption is a huge decision with even bigger choices within the Colorado adoption plan. As a birth mother, you are in control of your adoption plan. You have many different adoption options in Colorado, and you get to decide everything that involves your adoption journey.
You can choose the type of adoption you want, who will raise your child, and most importantly, you can decide how your labor and delivery go. Your adoption plan involves a lot of options that you get to choose on your own.
Connecting with an adoption caseworker here at Adoption Choices of Colorado is the first step to your Colorado adoption process, and they will be able to guide you through your adoption plan. He or she will be able to tell you everything that you get to choose on your own. They will be a support team for you along with your own that you choose.
If you need adoption help now, please call or text us at 303-670-4673 (HOPE) or visit us at Adoption Choices of Colorado.
You Can Choose the Type of Adoption
When choosing the type of adoption you want for your child, you are choosing the amount of communication you want with your child and their adoptive parents. You can choose between open, semi-open, or closed adoption in Colorado. You are in control of how much communication you want. A little, a lot, or something in between. This can be negotiated with the adoptive parents, but you make the final decision.
Open adoption has the most communication and connection because it is fully open. You will know who your child’s adoptive parents are, and they will know you with identification information shared. There will be little to no privacy. With this, you can stay in contact with your child a lot more. Staying in contact can be as simple as an email, or it could be as extreme as in-person visits. There is a long list of possibilities, including emails, phone calls, video chats, texting, connecting on social media, and in-person visits.
Semi-open adoption is something in between open and closed adoption. It gives you as much communication as you want, but also as much privacy as you want. Every kind of communication can be negotiated, but with semi-open adoption, the contact will not be as extreme as it could be with open adoption.
Closed adoption is the most private adoption. Identification information is not shared, and there will be no communication or contact between you, your child, and the adoptive parents. This may be the best type of adoption if you want a private life after giving birth and giving your baby up for adoption.
You Can Choose Who Raises Your Child
Choosing the adoptive parents is an important task. You are choosing who is going to raise your child their entire life. This is the biggest decision because no matter the reason behind choosing adoption, you want to give your child the best life they can have. You want them to be a part of a happy, healthy, and loving adoptive family and home.
You get to choose between many potential adoptive parents. You can look through a dashboard of tons of potential adoptive parents you may choose and decide based on their age, marital or single status, ethnic and cultural background, religious beliefs, location, and even personalities. An adoption caseworker at our Colorado adoption agency can help you through this decision and guide you to the best options for you and your child.
You Are in Control of Your Hospital and Delivery Plan
The day that you meet your child and potentially the adoptive parents is an important day with important decisions. You get to choose which hospital you will give birth in and what your day looks like, including whether or not you will meet the adoptive parents. You can also choose who is there to be a support team on the day of your child’s birth. This could be family members, friends, or no one. It is all up to you who is there to support you. This is a decision for if you want someone in the delivery room with you while you are giving birth or if you just want to be alone with the doctors and then your baby.
You get to choose how much time you get with your baby before he or she becomes the adoptive parents’ full-time adoptive child. It is all up to you. You are in control of this very important date. Planning your labor and delivery is a huge decision with tons of different options that you might not have thought of before.
You Choose the Support System You Have
Through the entire adoption process in Colorado, you can choose who you have around you for support. This can be your parents, siblings, friends, anyone you trust. If you want to keep this adoption private, that is okay. We have many professionals who are here to support you. We want to give you the most support that we can give. You are not alone, and we want you to remember that. You are in charge of your adoption plan and story.
Your adoption in Colorado is all up to you. If you have the birth father in your life and have a good relationship with him, he can help you make certain decisions. Yet, in the end, you choose everything. Your support system, if you choose, can give you their opinions and maybe even help you figure out the best choices for you. It’s all up to you.
Connect With One of Our Adoption Caseworkers and Start Your Adoption Plan Today
We have many professionals that can help you with your adoption plan here at Adoption Choices of Colorado. He or she can tell you every decision that you get to be in charge of. They can answer any question, big or small, and help you.
We are a private adoption agency here to explain to you what you get to decide for your adoption in Colorado. You get to decide everything, and we will be here to help you through each decision and show you every option. We will be here as a support team from choosing which type of adoption to your labor and delivery plan all in your adoption in Colorado.
If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and want to learn more about your adoption options, contact Adoption Choices of Colorado by email, phone, or text: Email Us, Text us: 720-371-1099, Call us: 303-670-4673 (HOPE). If you are hoping to adopt, please contact us here.
Meet the Author: Molly Allington is an aspiring author born and raised in Syracuse, New York. When she’s not watching her latest Netflix obsession, you can find her nose deep in a book or in her writing. She has been writing books since she was twelve and is in the process of trying to get her finished books published. Molly has a BA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. With her writing, she is hoping to share supportive information and help as many people as possible. Once she starts her own family, she is wanting to adopt.
Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor. Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam. Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field. Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families. Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.
Christy Ikeler, is our Executive Director and Birth Parent Director. Christy has been with Adoption Choices Team for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.
Ms. Mackenzie has built a successful counseling career over the past 20 years, supporting mothers and families, people of all ages and genders, students, community professionals and fellow clinicians. Liv values a diverse professional focus, including the entrepreneurial life of a sole proprietor, the evaluative process of certifying foster/adoptive homes, the insightful and mindful one-on-one one work with enthusiastic clients, and serving as an advocate for underserved populations. Liv is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a BA in Pre-Law and Economics from American University, an MA in Counseling from Adams University and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Villanova University. Away from work you will find Liv spending time in nature, biking to the farmer’s market and adventuring with her family.
Catherine A. Madsen, joined the Adoption Choices family as legal counsel in 2013. Catherine is responsible for providing legal guidance to the Agency, training and updating staff on developments in adoption law and legislation, and program development. Catherine
Virginia Frank is an adoption attorney accredited since 1991 with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Frank is a leader in the field of private adoption and has completed over 4,000 adoptions in her career. Ms. Frank has a law degree from Oklahoma City University and a BA in both Political Science and Communications from the University of Oklahoma.
Cassidie has been with Adoption Choices since 2015, she has her bachelors in Interdisciplinary Affairs with concentrations in both Sociology and Business Management. Cassidie has additional training in Victim Advocacy, foster care and has been working in women’s services for over 10 years. Cassidie has always had a heart for adoption and it was her career dream to work in adoption. She started off doing volunteer work for advocacy programs, adoption organizations and worked in High Risk Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Cassidie is also blessed to have personally experienced an adoption of her own in 2012, completing her family of five! Cassidie loves what she does as a case worker from initial phone calls, meetings, doctor appointments, interaction with the adoptive families to delivery and counseling. Cassidie has a passion for those in need and strives to help make a difference in the lives of the people she meets. She is a firm believer in being kind, compassionate and open minded in all situations. “Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, there’s no place for judgment. A kind word or compliment can go a long way!” The bittersweet moments in adoption reminds Cassidie each and every time, why she loves what she does!