Birth Moms Real Talk

Yvonne brings everyone up to date on her Sabbatical, Break, or self-care time.

Yvonne talks about the roller coaster ride of 7 years in Reunion with her son since 2018.

Transitions, Work, new DBT therapy journey, and all-around connection to the Adoption Community.

Stay tuned for Birth Moms Real Talk LIVE coming to Washington, DC in 2025.

Reunion is NOT easy, and we sometimes are tossed to the ground. Let us help each other.

We are In This Together towards Grace and Healing

We were honored to attend Black Voices Amplified Summit 2024 in New

Brunswick, New Jersey on November 9. 2024. “Yes We Adopt” was

founded by Stacey Gatlin as an organization committed to raising

awareness, cultivating community, and advocating for Black children and

families touched by adoption and fostering. https://www.yesweadopt.com

This was an awesome experience for me to continue to share my Journey

as a Birth/First Mom as we do on Birth Moms Real Talk Podcast

https://www.birthmomsrealtalk.com

Listen to a conversation with my Buddy, Damon Davis , host of Who I Am

Really Podcast https://www.whoamireallypodcast.com

We take on the challenges, grace, healing, and trauma to come out of the

F.O.G for the adoptee as well as the Birth/First Mom. We cover “ Hot

Topics” with honesty and truth .

“Hold On, You are in for a Ride.”

Abby is a transracial adoptee as a black adoptee adopted in 1971 by white parents. Her family was interested in adopting another Black child but that did not work out.

Her family were told by adoption agencies that a Black child would be the“Cheapest and Quickest “.

Abby started searching earnestly for her “truth” with her mother’s dementia,diagnosis.

Abby is also a Birth/First Mother and psychotherapist serving clients in the adoption constellation.

Abby spoke about the “ Real Truth” in Adoption dispels the Blank Slate ,Nurture over Nature that she heard in her family .

She speaks about her “ Dream Family” for her son placed in adoption.

The Truth Always Prevails and we need to Talk the Truth about the Trauma

Abby is a transracial adoptee as a black adoptee adopted in 1971 by white parents. Her family was interested in adopting another Black child but that did not work out.

Her family were told by adoption agencies that a Black child would be the “Cheapest and Quickest “.

Abby started searching earnestly for her “truth” with her mother’s dementia diagnosis.

Abby is also a Birth/First Mother and psychotherapist serving clients in the adoption constellation.

Abby spoke about the “ Real Truth” in Adoption dispels the Blank Slate ,

Nurture over Nature that she heard in her family .

She speaks about her “ Dream Family” for her son placed in adoption.

The Truth Always Prevails and we need to Talk the Truth about the Trauma

Mellisa described herself as wanting her own way as a teenager. This ‘headstrong’

attitude” as she describes it caused her to leave her home in high school. She

became independent to live by her own rules.

Mellisa’s life carried her through many “ dark places and lifestyles”. Her lack of

family support and assistance as an expectant mother was “ Hard”. Mellisa found

strength in her faith to find “ a way out of no way “.

Mellisa’s journey is a testament of survival through the storms of life. A message

on social media was life changing.

Mellisa described herself as wanting her own way as a teenager. This ‘headstrong’ attitude, as she describes it, caused her to leave her home in high school. She became independent to live by her own rules.

Mellisa’s life carried her through many “ dark places and lifestyles”. Her lack of family support and assistance as an expectant mother was “ Hard”. Mellisa found strength in her faith to find “ a way out of no way “.

Mellisa’s journey is a testament of survival through the storms of life. A message on social media was life-changing. 

Yvonne started her reunion with her son by finding him on social media in 2015, connected to him and meeting for the first time after 45 years in 2018 and now 2023, still progressing on a path of Grace and Healing. Yvonne started BMRT Podcast in June 2021 as a “ Place of providing a safe place for birth and natural mothers to share their “truth’ of disenfranchised grief for so many years. Our moms range from 14 years old to over 40 years, from the 1950s to now, who share their adoption stories.

We are all Mothers and our stories are different. This episode covers Yvonne sharing her steps, her thoughts, her journey in reunion. Reunion is Great AND Hard at the same time. This reality of facing nature versus nurture, facing the discovery of each other and growing to love her son and allowing him the space to process, accept and grow to love her. It is indeed a roller coaster journey . It is “ All about Love”.  We are All in This Together. Listen to Episode 00 , where Yvonne shares her full journey with Damon Davis of “ Who Am I Really Podcast “

Courtney spoke of having a “feeling” she was pregnant and facing denial for a few moments. She quickly went into action and reached out and was “ghosted” in the true sense of the word.

She found resources on the bus route, found an adoption counselor and made the life- changing decision to place her child in adoption.

Courtney gave birth and within 3 days was into her next transitional phase in life. Courtney is amazing and her story shows how powerful and worthy she is.