Birth Mother's Day Events and Cards

May 13 is a day set aside specially to honor birth mothers. In 1990, a group of Seattle birthmothers gathered on the Saturday before Mother's Day to honor their motherhood of the children they gave life to. Thus, Birthmother's Day was born. Now Birthmother's Day is a widespread holiday in the adoption community with many groups holding special events and services to honor birthmothers on this day.

On May 13^th, 2006, a group of birthmothers will be holding a celebration at Lifepoint Community Church in Greenville, SC. Registration is from 9:30-10 a.m.

This free event is for any and all birthmothers, young or old. Limited seating is available so you must RSVP by May 7 ^th. There will be fun, fellowship, crafts, lunch, a small ceremony, door prizes, and more!

Turns out that Coley Strickland, co-founder of BirthMom Buds (who I've been featuring in the last couple of posts), also has a birth mother card business.

The site, called Heartmark Designs, sells cards that adoptive parents can send to their child's birth mother.

They also offer cards that people can send to birth moms in honor of their child's birthday, as well as a selection of "anytime" cards.

For more information about cards or the Greenville Birthmother's Day event, e-mail Coley (program coordinator) at birthmombuds@gmail.com.

Do you have a Birthmother's Day event you'd like to publicize? If so, e-mail me and I'll post it on my blog.

Comments

[LAURIE RANDALL]

I JUST HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR SOME GOOD IDEAS TO CELEBRATE WITH THE REST OF MY BIRTHMOMS, ITS BEEN ALMOST A YEAR MY ADOPTION PLAN WAS GREAT, BUT IM TRYING TO HELP OTHERS AND OUR SUPORT, WE JUST NEED SOME GOOD IDEAS....????/ HELP

[Coley]

Laurie,
Email me and I can give you some ideas or visit the Birthmother's Day page on www.birthmombuds.com for a few ideas of things you can do!
~ Coley

[Marilyn]

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[Madelyn]

It's the most beautiful site I have visited today.