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Questions to Ask Birth Mothers When is your baby due? When did you start thinking about adoption? Are you working with an agency or attorney? (If you've met her through your own advertising.) Are you feeling all right? How does the birthfather feel about the pregnancy? ... How do your parents feel about the pregnancy?

Often this mother has other titles: biological mom, bio-mom, B-mom, first mother, other mother, natural mother.

Adoptee / Adopted Child The term “adoptee” can refer to two different things: 1) an individual who joins a family by adoption or 2) an adult adopted as a child.

Yes, your adopted child will share a significant number of characteristics with his or her biological parents, but you will be raising this child. The environment you provide them with will have a profound affect on their morals, their values, how they act, and the person they become.

As soon as you choose adoption and start the adoption process of placing your child, you are a birth mother. You are also considered to be a birth mother if, as aforementioned, you've already placed a child for adoption. When it comes to the meaning of this term, you are the biological mother.

Often this mother has other titles: biological mom, bio-mom, B-mom, first mother, other mother, natural mother.

The father and mother whose DNA a child carries are usually called the child's biological parents. Legal parents have a family relationship to the child by law, but do not need to be related by blood, for example in the case of an adopted child.

Most adoption professionals refer to biological parents as “birth parents,” but not everyone agrees that it's the best term to use. The term “birth mother” comes from the Positive Adoption Language (PAL) framework developed in 1979.