Advertising for a baby to adopt on Facebook

Jane

"We have lovely friends who are hoping to adopt a baby, and I'd like to help get their message out" posted an attorney on the Oregon Women Lawyers (OWLS) list. "They need to identify a birth mother who wants to give up her baby for adoption." She included the link to Erin and Dan's Facebook Page who tell us "We are seeking a domestic adoption, open or closed, preferably a newborn."

This was a first for the OWLS list which typically includes job openings, requests for referrals to other lawyers, and recommendations for nannies, plumbers, and other services, but it shouldn't be a surprise. Many more couples are in the baby hunt than there are babies, particularly with foreign countries curtailing intercountry adoptions.

Finding babies through Facebook. And your manicurist. And....

Jane

“Loving professional couple looking to adopt newborn. We want to build our family through adoption with love, laughter, fun and passion.” A typical baby wanted ad except that it appeared on Seth Edlavitch’s Facebook page according to "Adopting Through Facebook" on Parenting.com rather than the Sunday classifieds or The Penny Saver. 

Seth’s friends passed the notice along via the social media and voila! A friend of a friend called Seth about the pregnant wife of one her employees, Lisa. She and her husband had several children and wanted to place this baby for adoption. Seth and his wife, Melissa Segal, met Lisa; they hit it off immediately. Lisa had the qualities they wanted: her children were happy and healthy and she passed drinking, smoking, and other health tests.