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Adoption Tip: Make Sure Your Adoption Preferences Are Accurate
Lifetime’s Founder Mardie Caldwell has firsthand adoption experience through the adoption of her son. She shares an important adoption tip with waiting adoptive couples—you need to make sure that the adoption preferences your adoption professional has on file for you...
Lifetime Adoption Honored With Award
President and Founder of Lifetime Adoption Inc. Mardie Caldwell has been honored by the SBA (Small Business Association) as Woman-Owned Business of the Year! As a Certified Open Adoption Practitioner, Mardie has acquired the status of adoption expert from her years of...
What Men Want Women to Know
Before you adopt a baby or child, it’s important to first strengthen and enrich the relationship you have with your spouse. Part of this will entail understanding your husband and where he’s “coming from”. James Michael Sama, whose mission it is to spread the “New...
Handling Grief After Your Adoption Placement
After going through with an adoption plan, many birth mothers experience grief. This grief can take many forms, from anger to depression. That’s why at Lifetime we offer you counseling throughout your adoption journey, including after placement. Know that we’re here...
Choose Your Adoption Experience in the Hospital
Open adoption allows you many choices as a birth mother, including how things are handled at the hospital when you deliver. You will have many choices in your hospital experience, including who can be in the delivery room and who can see/hold your baby. If you have...
Struggling with Parenting? Considering Adoption?
If you have been struggling as a mother or to provide for a child you’re raising, know that you're not alone. Many women turn to Lifetime Adoption to explore their options in adoption. The reasons women choose adoption vary. Some women choose adoption for a child when...
Just the ‘Baby Blues’?
After giving birth, it is very normal for women to feel blue, sad, even depressed. There is a normal hormone shift that causes this, especially when combine with a lack of sleep, recovering body, and the pressure of 24-hour care of a newborn. But sometimes it doesn’t...
What to Do During Your Adoption Wait this Winter
When you’re hoping to be matched with a birth mother, the adoption wait can be made more difficult when you’re stuck inside during the winter months. Learn what you can be doing towards your adoption during these cold and stormy winter months. If you have questions...
Financing for Your Adoption
Lifetime Adoption has some exciting news! We've just partnered with LightStream (a division of SunTrust Bank) to offer loans to those hoping to adopt a baby or child. This loan has been set up as an "AnythingLoan," meaning that you may use it towards an aspect of your...