First Interaction With a Birthmother

I just had my first interaction with a birthmother.

Let me back up. When we started down this journey of adoption and learning about it, we were very ignorant of the reality of adoption. As one of the adoptees that spoke at our group class, we didn't realize that adoption "wasn't like the movie Juno." Our group classes spent a lot of time going over triad training and birthmothers, etc. We felt like we had been pushed into the deep end of the pool without knowing how to swim.