{"id":24009,"date":"2019-08-28T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoption-2020.local\/oh-the-places-youll-go-what-we-have-accomplished-since-placing\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:52:08","slug":"oh-the-places-youll-go-what-we-have-accomplished-since-placing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/oh-the-places-youll-go-what-we-have-accomplished-since-placing\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh The Places You’ll Go – What We Have Accomplished Since Placing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is nothing
\nmore powerful or radical or stunningly beautiful than a woman who chooses to
\nrebuild her life day after day. No matter how many pieces there are to pick up
\nor how many mistakes she must spin into gold.\u201d<\/o_p><\/p>\n

\u2013 Carol Alwill Leyba<\/o_p><\/p>\n

Placing a child is life changing in a number of ways. It can
\nput your past, present, and future into a whole new perspective. After placing,
\nI remember sitting down with my counselor and talking with her about the things
\nI wanted to do with my life and the goals I wanted to set for myself. I felt
\nlike I had now been given a second shot at getting it right and I didn\u2019t want
\nto mess it up. I was 19 and in college when I got pregnant and I was devastated
\nby the possibility that I wouldn\u2019t be able to finish college and get my degree.
\nI had worked so hard to get where I was. Placing my daughter allowed me to
\nrefocus and I set a goal for myself that I wanted to graduate in 4 years. I
\nwanted my daughter to be proud of me. I wanted her to see that I made something
\nof my life. <\/o_p><\/p>\n

In 2014 I achieved that goal and graduated with my BA in
\nPsychology. It was one of the best days of my life. But do you want to know
\nwhat the best part was? My daughter was there with her parents. In fact she was
\nwaving at me while I walked across the stage and was handed my diploma. I felt
\na flood of emotion as my daughter watched me. She was able to witness me taking
\nthe next step in bettering my future. It was a full circle moment for me. <\/o_p><\/p>\n

And I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t acknowledge the fact that
\nher parents understood the significance of that day and showed up for me. And
\nthey have continued to show up for me over the years and have celebrated my
\naccomplishments.<\/o_p><\/p>\n

Since then I have continued to set and achieve goals so that
\none day she might be proud that I am her birthmother. I found my passion in
\nlife and have pursued a career in the adoption field. There may come a day when
\nshe asks me about my decision, and I hope that I have a long list of
\naccomplishments to show her what I was able to do because of it. I obviously
\nmade the decision because I wanted her to have a better life, but I was also
\nable to better my own life.<\/o_p><\/p>\n

Here are the achievements of other birthmothers in our
\nHealing Hearts group who picked themselves up and achieved great things after
\nplacing.<\/o_p><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a little over 1
\nyears clean and sober.\u201d<\/o_p><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a much better
\nparent now for both of my children. SO much so that I have finally regained
\ncustody of my first born son who is now 11.\u201d<\/o_p><\/p>\n

\u201cI got out of a 12
\nyear abusive relationship.\u201d<\/o_p><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past 2
\nyears I have overcome a lot of obstacles and I finally have my life on the
\nright path.\u201d<\/o_p><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, 8 years later,
\nI have been married for 4 years and I have a son. He is 1 and I couldn\u2019t be happier.
\nI was given a second chance.\u201d<\/o_p><\/p>\n

 <\/o_p><\/p>\n

And those are just a few\u2026Isn\u2019t it amazing what one can
\naccomplish when given the chance?<\/p>\n

By: Ali D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is nothing more powerful or radical or stunningly beautiful than a woman who chooses to rebuild her life day after day. No matter how many pieces there are to pick up or how many mistakes she must spin into gold.\u201d \u2013 Carol Alwill Leyba Placing a child is life changing in a number of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10914,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649],"tags":[1134,1135,1132,1133],"class_list":["post-24009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-mothers","tag-birthmom-stories-since-placing","tag-birthmother-stories-since-placing","tag-oh-the-places-youll-go","tag-what-we-have-accomplished-since-placing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adoptionnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}