Spreading the Word

Anyone who pursues domestic adoption knows how important it is to spread the word that you are looking to adopt. In fact, many people have found their children through word of mouth, rather than waiting for a birthmom to come to their agency and pick them. Since beginning the adoption process, we have done an extensive amount of networking. Here is a look at our efforts and recent adoption activity.

Our Efforts

Since October 2003, we've done 339 things to find our child. Our efforts have included writing letters and e-mails to family and friends, purchasing newspaper and internet advertising, distributing flyers and adoption cards, creating a web site and online profile, searching state web sites for available children, registering with state adoption exchanges, submitting our home study to caseworkers, and much more!

Our Results

• Since listing with ParentProfiles.com on April 19, 2005, we have received 12 contacts from potential birth moms. We were matched with one of them in May, but unfortunately things didn't work out.



• Our personal adoption web page has received 1,689 hits and 1 direct birth mom contact.


• Since we began our adoption journey, we've heard of 7 potential birth mothers and 1 sibling group of older children from friends and family members. None of these situations panned out, but we are thrilled that so many people are looking out for us.


• Since April 2005, our Google Adwords ads have received 322,706 impressions and 311 clicks and visits to our web site.


• In the past 5 months, more than 4,000 people have visited our adoption profile on ParentProfiles.com. Of those, 171 visited our contact us page and 13 added us to their favorites.

Hopefully, our efforts will soon pay off!

Updated by Dee on 9/8/05