LESSONS FROM NINA
Published October 2012 By The Cradle Staff When Becky and Rich Carter brought six-week-old Nina home from The Cradle in the spring of 2009, they were “surrounded by the newness of it all,” Becky recalls. As first-time parents, they were more focused on attending to the needs of their infant daughter than mulling over the […]
BRYAN, WHO ADOPTED THROUGH THE CRADLE ADOPTION AGENCY, DISCUSSES OPEN ADOPTION
Bryan, who adopted through The Cradle adoption agency, discusses open adoption
PHOENIX’S ADOPTION STORY
Published August 2010 By The Cradle Staff All for the Love of Phoenix On December 9 of last year, Jala Anderson-McKee came to The Cradle to take home her new baby daughter, Phoenix, who had spent her first six weeks in the care of The Cradle Nursery. “Phoenix” was the name chosen for this beautiful […]
LIANA’S ADOPTION STORY
Adopting Liana We adopted our beautiful daughter Liana, whom we adopted through The Cradle and Holt International in September 2004. We had a wonderful experience with The Cradle, and felt very well prepared through the parenting classes and our meetings with our counselor. Liana is truly an angel to us – our trip to China […]
MEANT TO BE: THE NIEMIS’ ADOPTION JOURNEY
Published January 2014 By The Cradle Staff A family sits around a picnic table at the zoo. There are older members and younger members, Asian members and Caucasian members. Everyone talks and laughs as they pass the baby around. It’s a happy picture, but one question immediately comes to mind: what brought all of these […]
JUMPING FOR JOIE – MEREDITH, RENEE, AND JOIE’S STORY
Published October 2014 By Shelbie Bostedt, Intern At first glance, Renee and Meredith seem like any ordinary pair of Facebook friends. But at the heart of this relationship is something much deeper than a social network. Renee is the birth mother of Meredith’s daughter, Joie, who was adopted through The Cradle six years ago. After losing […]
