Dear Mama: A Letter to My Daughter’s Birthmother (in Honor of November Adoption Month)

by Jane Samuel

Years ago as I held my new daughter in my arms, feeding her in the dark of our bedroom in the hopes that her fretful, busy body would settle into sleep, my heart welled with emotions and my mind turned to the woman who birthed this child. Tears streaming down my cheeks, I thought about the pain a woman must face in the giving away of her offspring. […]