If you would like to have counseling after the placement, we will help you find someone who is right for you or you can continue to work with the social worker who helped you when you first started your adoption planning. If you change your mind, you change your mind. Whether to continue a pregnancy, parent or place a child for adoption is a very personal decision. Many women have personal questions such as these. We encourage you to listen to your heart when considering these or other questions.
Women feel a variety of feelings after a placement.
Some feel guilty because they feel relief, relief from the sleep-deprived nights, the daily responsibilities of childcare and relief from financial strain. Others feel an aching sadness. Sometimes there are intense feelings immediately after placement which soften over time. Sometimes it takes months or years to put words to the feelings one has following the placement of a child. Some women find that it helps a LOT to be in touch with the adoptive family and to know how the child is doing.