[jwsea55]

My adopted (foreign born) daughter's announcement was placed in the paper (in 2002) by me making a phone call. I didn't want my adopted daughter to feel any different then my biological one, so if you go back and look it says “a baby girl, born to (us) of (our place of residence) on (DOB)". If you didn't know she was born in China, you wouldn't find it in the birth announcement section. No proof was asked for. I could have added at such and such hospital. This in 2002, no verification necessary.

What a thoughtful thing you did. Hopefully, your guys love is more important than an announcement.

...and it is interesting that something can look official and really have no factual basis behind it.

[MacMattico]

Yes, always, love is the most important thing. But with so few pictures from my daughter’s first year I thought it would be nice if both girls could have their birth announcements in their baby books, page 1, and I’ve always told both of them we are so happy to have them, even though they came into the family in different ways, so we had to put it in the paper!

When my daughter was very young, she’d laugh when I told her I prayed for the best two little girls in the world, one happened to grow in my tummy, the other happened to be in China on the other side of the world. She knows I don’t like flying, so the fact that I flew all the way to China and back makes her smile. :)

And you’re right, it was so easy to put that birth announcement in the paper, I didn’t lie, just didn’t mention place of birth.