AP Testimonials

My husband and I profiled for many babies and were not chosen over a period of 3 months. Michele called me one day and said “I think the problem is […]

My Mom always says that things happen for a reason but I never quite believed that until April 16,2007. Just a day and a half earlier we had received a […]

The happiest day of our lives was the day our daughter came into our lives. We had been dealing with infertility for several years before we decided to adopt. It […]

Most of our extended family was in town to celebrate the 70th birthday of my father-in-law, and the 95th birthday of my Grandmother-in-law. David’s sister and her husband were at […]

I Felt Her Calling Me From China: I couldn’t explain it more than that. People asked me “Why China? Why not a baby from around here?” I always answered, “Because […]

One beautiful summer day, I received a phone call from my mother, telling me that my cousin was pregnant. My cousin is deaf and has other special needs. She did […]

We always wanted more than one child, but it wasn’t in the stars to have more than one biological child. We have a wonderful son named Andrew who always wanted […]

It is hard to imagine that it will be 5 years ago is just a few short weeks that our family was complete. After many years of unsuccessful attempts to […]

Ever since I was a little girl the Lord put the desire to adopt in my heart. Ryan and I both felt that it was time to start the adoption […]

We were unable to conceive and, weighing several options and longing for a child, we turned to adoption. We attended a seminar at another agency where we met an attorney […]

When the phone rang at 3:31 on October 2, 2006 I was involved in a team meeting at work. I remember walking to the phone, wondering whom Kathy was and […]

Words cannot express what a profound gift we have in our forever family. When Nejari came into our home, our lives, our heart, as a fifteen month old angel we […]

We always talked about adoption as part of our plan to have a family. We thought we’d pursue the biological route first and then start the adoption process. After three […]

My husband and I decided to adopt after a few years of trying to conceive on our own, with no luck. We attended the orientation session given by Adoption STAR […]

In June of ’07, my wife and I became aware of a Birth Mom due with a baby boy on 07-16-07. The Birth Mom met with me only some time […]

We always knew that we wanted to have children and were excited when we began our adoption journey one year ago. We were recently blessed with the arrival of our […]

Thank you for this opportunity to share our adoption story. It begins like many others. After struggling with infertility, we decided adoption was our best choice. We had been couple […]

While we were waiting for our baby to be born to her birth family, I found out I was pregnant(again)! Knowing that we would be unable to raise two infants…. […]

Like most other couples, we struggled with infertility. After years of treatments and all the emotional ups and downs, we decided that adoption with right for us. In April, we […]

My husband Bill and I had been waiting to adopt for a few months. Only recently had our local agency sent our profile to Adoption STAR. But I had gotten […]

Our beautiful identical twin daughters came to us through Adoption STAR’s capable hands. The agency made our adoption experience wonderful, even through some bumps and unexpected turns in the road. […]

We are proud parents of our little girl, Evelyn. We started our adoption process with Adoption STAR. We attended classes, special events and pursued private-track adoption. I’ll start our story […]

It had been almost a year since we had completed our home study and it was almost time to renew it. I started to feel like maybe we should pursue […]

After years of waiting, my husband and I received that “phone call” on May 12th— our daughter (Jenna) had been born the previous day! I can’t even explain how we […]

Our dreams came true after a long wait and many profiling opportunities. Feeling discouraged and frustrated with the wait I called Michele Fried to discuss our profile. We had already […]

Thanks for allowing us to share our Adoption Story with you. Marc and I have been married for over 13 years. When we were first married, we knew it could […]

After trying for several years with fertility meds, and then finally doing in-vitro with no success, we decided we had to figure out if we wanted to remain childless, or […]

It seems I had waited my whole adult life to become a Mom. After struggling with infertility and discouraged by many agencies against single parent adoption – I was beginning […]

The wait had seemed much longer than the six weeks since our home study had been finished when we got the call asking if we’d like to be profiled for […]

Life is a journey that comes with struggles as well as joys. People along the road of life add to the experiences learned. Thank you STAR for all your influences […]

We thought we were ahead of the plan, until we received the call from Zachary’s birth mother one month prior to the expected delivery! We dropped everything and took off […]

When you have tragedy in your life, friends always seem to make the same remark: Things happen for a reason. It’s meant to be soothing, and you appreciate the sentiment. […]

It was 2002 when my husband and I first made the decision to adopt. We knew almost immediately that we would one day bring a child into our home through […]

My husband Jason and I had been trying to have a baby. A miscarriage, fertility treatments and then news that our odds were so horribly low that we would ever […]