Holiday Traditions for a CO Open Adoption
Being in a CO open adoption with your child can be the greatest thing this holiday season. You are deciding to do open adoption and choose the perfect adoptive family for your child. You are in Colorado and are seeking adoption services near you. Adoption Choices of Colorado is the best place to ask for help this season. We understand the decision you are making, and we are here to support you in any way we can. The holidays are a time for family, and making this decision for your child is tough. However, choosing a CO open adoption can make the holidays even brighter for you, so you can see your child.
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Adoption Agency in Colorado
Adoption Choices of Colorado is a private agency where you can call and find information for your unplanned pregnancy. Being a birth mother can be stressful around the holidays, but you can trust resources and people. At Adoption Choices of Colorado, we can help you give your up baby for adoption. If you need assistance in answering your questions and concerns, go to our main site. Open adoption is a great way for you to form a connection with your adoptive family and be in your child’s life.
What is CO Open Adoption?
Open adoption is when you have ongoing contact with your child and the adoptive family. It’s an ongoing relationship that will create a long-lasting bond with your child and the adoptive family you choose. Based on your arrangement with the adoptive family, there will be contact through phone calls, video calls, letters, progress notes, pictures, and email. Having an open adoption means you are letting the adoptive family know personal information such as medical and financial. This type of adoption lets you get to know yourself as an individual and understand your situation. Putting your baby up for adoption in Colorado wasn’t an easy one. Having the adoptive family know you create a better relationship. There can be opportunities to get close to your child and be a part of their life in some way. We have four-holiday traditions you can start with your child when you choose open adoption in Colorado for this holiday season.
Four Holiday Traditions for Your Open Adoption
- Create a Holiday Card- It’s that time of year in December where getting a Christmas card is one of the simplest ways to show a person you care. You can buy or create a homemade holiday card for your child and send it to them. Get creative! In an open adoption, you may know some of your child’s interests. If they like a certain show or toy, create a card that has those images. Add a few cheesy holiday puns. Most importantly, decorate and put your love into the words you write.
- Plan a Holiday Video Chat- If you discuss with the adoptive family, having a Christmas video chat can be arranged whether it’s on Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, or on Hanukkah. If you plan to send gifts to your child and watch them open them, this can create memories for them and yourself. Every year you can watch them grow and have a raw reaction from the gifts you give them. It may be through video chat, but you are a big part of their life.
- Create a Homemade Ornament for Your Child- Making homemade gifts is a special treat this winter season. If this is your first Christmas with your child after the adoption process, make them their very first Christmas ornament. You can use a picture you have of them or decorate it however you wish. You can decorate it with their name or put an important word or phrase. As long as it’s coming from the heart, the adoptive family and child will find it meaningful and from the heart.
- Send Your Child a Gift- Since it’s the Holiday season, gifts are the most logical thing to receive. In an open adoption, you know the updates from the adoptive parents. You may even communicate with the child themselves. It doesn’t matter if this is your first year or five years of spending a Holiday with your child. Your care and thought into the gift should be a wonderful experience. Through your gift, you get to show that you are present in their life and that you know them well. Being the birth mother means you brought their life into the world, you may not be parenting them, but you are an important person in their life. Expressing that through a gift speaks volumes, which they will appreciate.
I hope these Holiday traditions inspire you to give back to your child. We make open adoption simple and easy. Any gifts you have, we will be more than happy to accommodate you. Have a happy holiday.
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.
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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!