I was told that the birth mother wants to see our profile book. What is a profile book?????
When a birth mother is ready to select a family to adopt her child, the adoption entity takes her a handful of adoptive parents profile books to select from. If you are a good match based on your comfort level and the comfort level of the birth mother, the agency will take her your profile book to review.
Making a profile book about your story may be intimidating. You are capturing your life in a book that is going to be previewed by birth parents who are making an adoption plan for their child.
Birth mothers are looking to give their child a chance to succeed in life; a life they could not give them; a life they would want themselves. The most important rule is to be yourself. One birth mother will love the fact you have three dogs and a cat and another will not.
A birth mother may like our profile book because you remind her of Aunt Daisy, who she loved and respected. She may like the fact you have traveled the world or that may not be important to her. She may like the fact that you are a stay at home mother and she doesn’t have to worry about her child being in daycare or that may not matter to her.
There is no way to tell what is important to her, so at the end of the day…. Be You.