Your Patients Deserve

Professional, Compassionate, and Ethical Care

Lifeline is committed to serving your team & your patients.

With over 41 years of experience serving women in unexpected pregnancies, we are a partner you can trust.

Free Training

Providing top-quality training for your team at no cost.

Free Consultations

Offering immediate consultations and meetings with patients considering adoption at no cost.

Separate Advocates

Ensuring that expectant and adoptive parents have separate advocates. Every woman will receive an advocate who will be there for her every step of the way through her pregnancy.

Vetted and Trained Families

If a woman decides to make an adoption plan, Lifeline works with families who are thoroughly vetted and equipped to care for the child and the birth family.

Full Support

Lifeline supports birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive families for a lifetime. Lifeline provides a variety of post-adoption support to birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families included, but not limited to, counseling, parent coaching, support groups, and events.

Free Resource, Adoption Best Practices for Hospitals and OBGYNs

As a medical professional, we want you and your team to be equipped with resources to care for your patients as they consider options for their pregnancy.

We hope this simple e-book helps you understand an approach to talking to your patients about adoption as an option.

As always, we are available with expert support for you, your team, and your patients.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Adoption can be considered at any point before birth, but most begin to explore this option in the 2nd or 3rd trimester.
After birth: Many patients consider adoption immediately after birth and even through the infant and toddler years.

Any patient who has some hesitation about parenting for a variety of reasons.
Those patients with limited support either from the father of the child or other family members.
Those with a prenatal diagnosis.
Those with prenatal substance use.
Those currently involved or at risk of CPS involvement. Patients may choose adoption rather than CPS mandated foster care so their child has a permanent family.
Those who give birth to a child with medical or developmental needs beyond their capacity to parent.

Yes! Voluntary infant adoption is different than foster care. There are waiting families, not waiting children.
Through adoption agencies, there are families available for all children. These families are well vetted, educated and trained to parent children of all races and genders, including those with medical and developmental special needs.

To ensure informed consent and patient choice, patients need to be educated about all options, including adoption. Discussing adoption with an adoption professional does not obligate her to this choice.
To provide patients more power over their decision. Different than foster care, patients can choose the child’s family and level of openness.

Connect the patient to an ethical adoption provider. These adoption providers can present more information on the adoption process and help them get connected to resources and prospective adoptive families. Lifeline is available 24/7 by calling 800-875-5595.