After what may have felt like a long and tedious paperwork process you have made it to matching! Have you ever heard the phrase “hurry up and wait”? Now that you have hurried through paperwork and completed everything on your end it’s time for your Foster Care Advocate to work on your behalf. For […]

  New adoptive parents never expect to feel anything but happiness, however, depression symptoms may occur in as many as 65% of adoptive parents after adopting their children. What you are experiencing is natural. Though the rewards and joys of parenting are huge, the challenges can be draining, confusing, and…depressing. Loss is a catalyst for […]

  I was only a child myself when I learned my sister was pregnant and I would be an aunt again. While I went through the excitement of becoming an aunt once before when my oldest sister had her first child, this time was different. I did not understand why my sister was not going […]

  Nightlight opened our Burkina Faso program in 2014 and we have seen this program come a long way! Burkina Faso should be of interest to any family considering adoption from Africa. Burkina Faso is signatory to the Hague Adoption Convention, ensuring protections are in place to provide oversight that intercountry adoptions are processed in […]

  You have made the decision to adopt and the next step is a home study. I am sure that in your decision making process you spent some time on google researching what a home study is like. You have probably read and heard all different things about the home study. The home study can […]

Starting the embryo adoption journey through the Snowflakes Program can be very exciting, but the financial component can take people by surprise. So, how can you pay for your embryo adoption? Adopting embryos does indeed have a cost, but the good news is that there are grants, scholarships, and loans out there that can help […]