Welcome to my blog on adoption!  Since retiring from my practice as a private adoption practitioner, I am no longer adding additional blog entries.  However, I hope that the information contained within my past blogs will be of interest and help to those of you currently pursuing adoption.  Happy reading!                  Lori

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Loss: The Paradoxical Truth in Adoption

Posted by Lori Rosove on Sunday, September 22, 2013, In : Adoption 
"The saddest day of my life was the happiest day of your life", wrote Ottawa social worker, Carol Shipley, in her book, Love, Loss, and Longing: Stories of Adoption, quoting her birth mother upon meeting Carol's adoptive mother. 

No doubt, adoption brings a complexity to one's psyche that otherwise may not exist if a different choice was made. But who would argue with the plan to have a family raise a child with all the necessary aspects of life - stability, consistency, structure, and love - ...
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It's a Beautiful Thing

Posted by Lori Rosove on Wednesday, January 30, 2013, In : Adoption 
Last week, I had the honour of participating in a wonderful experience.  As the counsellor to a lovely birth mother, who had chosen to place her newborn child for adoption, I was able to witness an abundance of love bestowed upon the central player in the adoption circle; the child. This love was shared and shown by the birth mother and the adoptive parents. How do I know that? When I see a birth mother expressing her newly created colostrum and giving the bottle to the adoptive parents to fe...
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