What Are the Birth Mother Rights After an Adoption in Colorado?
You are a birth mother in Colorado who has decided to go through an adoption process. You have chosen us,
Adoption Choices of Colorado, to prepare you for the adoption plan and adoption process and explain the
CO adoption services. One crucial question plaguing your mind is, what about after? What are your birth mother’s rights after the adoption is finalized? We are a reliable
adoption agency in Colorado and want to make the adoption process and finalization easy to comprehend and get ready for. Let’s briefly explain what an adoption plan is and how it starts off your adoption process
. If you need adoption help now, please call or text us at 303-670-4673 (HOPE) or visit us at Adoption Choices of Colorado.Adoption Plan in Colorado
With an
adoption plan, this includes your adoption types:
Open Adoption
Having open communication with your child and the adoptive family. This type of adoption is primarily personal. Forms of contact can be made through video and phone calls, scheduled visiting, emails, and letters with updates on the child’s upbringing.
Closed Adoption
You take your privacy very seriously and do not wish to communicate with your child or adoptive family. You want no personal information exchanged. Your goal is to choose a loving family for your child.
Semi-Open Adoption
You don’t want a personal relationship with your child or adoptive family. However, you’d appreciate consistent updates. You make boundaries of communication. Forms of contact include phone and video calls, scheduled visits, professional emails, and letters. The Adoption Choices of Colorado mediate everything
.What are Your Adoption Preferences?
Next, you decide on specific preferences of what your ideal adoptive family would have. Some of these questions you might want to consider are:
Location
Would you prefer the adoptive family within your neighborhood or the same county? Is farther away in a different city, state, or country a better option?
Upbringing
Based on your own experience of being raised, would you prefer an adoptive family with the same mindset when raising children or something slightly different from your upbringing?
Race/Ethnicity
Is having an adoptive family with the same race your preference, or does it not matter regardless because they will love and care for your child?
Religious Affiliation
Whether you believe in a particular religion or not, would you consider having an adoptive family with a belief a priority?
Family Type
Would you prefer an adoptive family with parents familiar with adoption, kids of their own, same-sex couples, single fathers, or mother parents?
Colorado Adoption Services
- Financial assistance can be an opportunity to apply for grants and loans and be part of programs that help with your economic instability. See if you are eligible for the opportunities to assist you during your adoption process. Rent, phone bills, transportation fees, medical fees, and other expenses can be covered.
- Medical expenses may be covered through financial assistance. We can help provide a doctor for you and schedule your appointments. We want to make sure you and the baby are healthy. Medical services can be paid for when applying for medical assistance.
- Housing is an option if you do not have a home or have specific circumstances that make you feel unsafe or don’t have space in your living arrangements. We can provide possible housing options during the duration of your adoption—places near you where you will feel comfortable and safe.
- Birth Plan occurs before the actual delivery date. You and your doctor will discuss the preparations, such as the location of the birth, who will be in the delivery room, if you want to breastfeed your child, and if you’d like pain relief medication during the birth.
- Free Counseling Sessions are an option when you want to go over the adoption process’s emotions, feelings, and stresses or anything in particular. We understand that you may mentally figure out how you feel about the adoption choices you’ve made. We want to allow you to speak to a professional who will help you cope, acknowledge, and accept your adoption.
Birth Mother Rights: The Before and After
Finally,
Adoption Choices of Colorado will help you prepare and understand your Birth Mother’s Rights Before and After adoption finalization. You have several crucial birth mother rights before an adoption is finalized.
- You decide on the type of adoption.
- The right to decide on the adoptive family.
- Have complete control of your body
- You control how you want to receive care for yourself and your baby.
You have the right to change your mind about the adoption process (limitations, depending on the stage of the adoption process and legalities in CO state)
Once you are in the process of finalizing your adoption, you relinquish your rights as a birth mother. However, you have these four rights after adoption if you have decided to pursue open adoption.
- You have the right to communicate with the child
- Scheduling an in-person visitation
- You have the right to send letters, make video and phone calls
- Share with your child at the age of eighteen (closed adoption)
Adoption Choices of Colorado hopes you plan your adoption accordingly. First, our goal is to keep you safe and protected. We want your child to have a loving adoptive family. Finally, we want you to feel satisfied with your final decisions. For any specifications regarding your rights as a birth mother after the adoption is complete, speak to your adoption counselor and adoption specialist.
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.
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!