Family Building Resources

Email Miriam if you want to be connected to others who have gone through or are currently dealing with similar experiences, whether fertility issues, pregnancy or infant loss, the adoption process, or anything else.  All emails will be kept strictly confidential.

• Meryl Rosenberg, ART Parenting
• Jennifer Fairfax, Catelyn Slattery and Michelle Miser
• Creative Family Connections
• Crockin Law and Policy Group
• Hagar Center
• Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys

• Julie Bindeman, PsyD, at Greater Washington Therapy (support groups and individual therapy)
• Megan Flood, LICSW(mental health professional with a speciality in family building issues)
• Emma Basch (licensed clinical psychologist specializing in pregnancy, the postpartum period, and perinatal loss)
• Chana Lockerman (therapist specializing in family building challenges as well as postpartum mood and anxiety disorders)
• Caryn Malkus (mental health professional specializing in therapy for fertility challenges)

• DC Pregnancy Loss & Infant Death Support Group
• Guide to Pregnancy and Infant Loss Resources in the DMV
• Emma Basch (licensed clinical psychologist specializing in pregnancy, the postpartum period, and perinatal loss)
• The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
• A Time (support and assistance within the Jewish community in the tragic event of loss at any point of the pregnancy)
• Return to Zero: H.O.P.E 
• Jess Gruber (yoga therapy)
• “Talking About Miscarriage” by Rachel Rosenthal

• Shady Grove Fertility Center
• Columbia Fertility Associates
• Dominion Fertility

• Jewish Fertility Foundation (national organization with a DC-area office offering financial assistance, emotional support and community events)
• The Tinina Q Cade Foundation (grants, information, and support for families experiencing infertility)
• Family Equality (formerly Path 2 Parenthood) (information and support for family building)
• Resolve (nationwide infertility support and advocacy organization)
• Heal from Within (acupuncture and support groups for fertility)
• Uptown Acupuncture (acupuncture for fertility, pregnancy, and birth support)

• California Cryobank
• Fairfax Cryobank

• Jewish Fertility Foundation (national organization with a DC-area office offering financial assistance, emotional support and community events)
• Hasidah (national organization to increase awareness and provide support for infertility in the Jewish community)
• Uprooted (Jewish communal response to fertility journeys)
• Yesh Tikva (resources and awareness in the Jewish community)
• I Was Supposed to Have a Baby (social media platform that supports Jewish individuals and families struggling to have a baby)
• Hebrew Free Loan Association (interest-free loans for fertility and adoption costs)
• Adas Israel Community Mikvah (Jewish Ritual Bath frequently used for rituals when trying to conceive, undergoing IVF, or converting an adopted child)

• “The Case for Social Infertility” from the New Yorker, June 18, 2019
• “What IVF Really Feels Like, According to 12 Women Who Have Done It,” from Cosmopolitan,Nov. 2, 2017
• Podcast from Mechon Hadar dealing with issues of Jewish law and IVF, in regards to the religion of an egg donor
• Articles in Kveller on fertility struggles
• Article in the Washington Post about fertility struggles in a synagogue community
• Matt & Doree’s Eggscellent Adventure (a podcast chronicling one couple’s fertility journey)
• “When a Pandemic Dictates an Only Child”

• DC Child and Family Services, Kim Walk and Kathleen Stines, Adoption and Foster Care Recruiter
• The Barker Adoption Foundation (a nonprofit adoption agency licensed in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia)
• American Adoptions
• Friends in Adoption
• Adoptions Together
• KidSave (older child adoption and mentoring)
• Pact (specifically serving adoptees of color)

• Center for Adoption Support and Education
• Adoptive Families: The How-To-Adopt and Adoption Parenting Network
• Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys
• Path 2 Parenthood (information and support for family building)
• adoption.com (a good site for advertising to prospective birth mothers)
• adopttogether.org (an option for raising money/crowdfunding to pay adoption costs)
• https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-adoption-tax-credit (helpful information about the Adoption Tax Credit)
• Understanding the Cost of Child Adoption (compiled by Moneygeek)

• Yatom: The Jewish Foster and Adoption Network
• Jewish Children’s Adoption Network

• Rainbow Families
• Human Right Campaign: Explore Adoption
• Men Having Babies (surrogacy parenting advice and support for gay men worldwide)
• LGBTQ Adoption Guide (compiled by Moneygeek)

• Pact: An Adoption Alliance (serving adopted children of color by providing lifelong education, support, and community)
• Isaac Etter (a transracial adoptee himself and the founder of Identity Learning
• What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption by Melissa Guida-Richards

• Identity Learning (an adoptee-founded community)
• Center for Adoption Support and Education
• The Barker Adoption Foundation

• The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, by Nancy Newton Verrier (2003)
• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge (2009)
• Twenty Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make by Sherrie Eldridge (2015)
• Adoption Therapy by Laura Dennis (2014)
• The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by Karyn Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine (2007)
• What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption by Melissa Guida-Richards
• The Honestly Adoption Podcast, with Mike and Kristen Berry
• Adoption Now Podcast
• I’m Adopted Now What Podcast
• The Adoption and Fostering Podcast
• Infant Adoption Guide Podcast
• NPR Host Steve Inskeep on being an adoptee and an adoptive parent