277. Renee Gelin: "Saving Our Sisters"
About this episode
Renee Gelin shares her journey of helping mothers avoid unnecessary separations from their newborns after her own experience with adoption.
After losing her son, to a devastating unnecessary adoption Renee Gelin discovered her purpose to help other mothers avoid unnecessarily separating from their newborns. Renee started speaking to other expectant mothers and realized that many of the reasons that they were considering adoption were similar to hers – temporary. She started explaining the lifelong trauma that maternal separation causes both mothers and their newborns and the mothers listened. The adoption community began to see moms with their babies and began to support Renee’s efforts of family preservation. Others online began to direct mothers considering adoption to speak with Renee and the concept of Saving Our Sisters became a reality. Renee married her son’s father and together they parent their daughters in Florida. https://savingoursistersadoption.org Recommended Resources: https://thefamilypreservationproject.com https://untanglingourroots.org https://concernedunitedbirthparents.org Music by Corey Quinn
People in this episode
Host: Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
Guest: Renee Gelin
Topics covered
- adoption
- maternal separation
- family preservation
- support for mothers
- trauma
- community
Keywords
- adoption
- maternal separation
- family preservation
- support
- trauma
- mothers
- newborns
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Saving Our Sisters, The Family Preservation Project, Untangling Our Roots, Concerned United Birthparents
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