Received 6/6/01

"Dear adoption online:
WE thought you'd like to know about another success story through your website. [our daughter] was placed with us last week just after she was born. WE picked her up in Colorado from the most fabulous pair of birthparents."

"The birthmom found us on your website last November, when she was just two months pregnant. We have a very open adoption, and have come to know the birthmom very well. The birthfather was also present at the birth and gave us his blessing. "

"Thank you for your service! "
Photo attached. [client # 351]

"[we] listed with your service November 1999 as client number 335. One month later, we had our son [name removed] in our arms. His birthmother called us again in December 2000 to say she had given birth to a baby girl and to fly out to [birthmothers home state] and pick her up. We now have two beautiful babies due, in large part, to your service of connecting people."

"With all of the negative information being spread about the country about "online adoptions", [name removed] and I felt we needed to do something positive to let people know it does work. We were interviewed by the [local] news here in [city removed], California and the interview was wonderful. It aired last night, for sweeps week, and we are very pleased with the results."

"The [name removed] family cannot thank you enough. Please be sure to list us on your site for two successful adoptions!"

All the best,
[clients #335]"

Identifying information such as names and states removed by request.

"reporting another for your site! Our son [name removed] was born 16Apr01 (pic attached). We matched with the birthparents 3 weeks ago via your site.
Thank you,
[clients #316]"

Received 12/20/00

"Thank you for providing such a wonderful service. God used it in our lives to accomplish His will and to bless us beyond our wildest dreams!"

"On November [date deleted] our daughter was born. She makes all that we have been through with four failed adoptions in three years worth all the pain and heartache because she is the baby that God had waiting for us to adopt. We see now why the other four didn't work out and our wait for a legitimate, drug and alcohol free, birth mom took so long."

"She is all the things that dreams are made of !!! So hang in there, dreams do come true and it may take a lot of pain, heartache, and time but the Glory of finally getting that baby home is worth dieing for..."

"God bless,
[client 425]"

Received 10/13/00

"I wanted to thank you for the service. As you know we have adopted a beautiful baby girl. We are so happy and appreciate all of your help!!!!! This is a great site."

Received 8/3/00

"We flew to meet her [the birthmom] and her family last week. We hit it off over the phone immediately and we are very positive about the whole thing."

"...our bm [birthmother] was through adoptiononline. So keep the faith. It can happen. We have been contacted by 5 bm's in less than 2 months. The perfect match will happen with time."

Received 6/18/00

"Dear AdoptionOnline.com,
We were Client-347 and we wanted to let you know that we adopted a baby boy born June 4th. We had been contacted with the birthmom just four days after we posted (just after Christmas), but had to wait six months until his arrival."

" It's great being new parents and your site had a huge hand in connecting us to a birthmom. We just wanted to say thank you. "

Sincerely,
[Client-347]

Received 6/2/00

"So glad you wrote. Your timing is perfect. The adoption we thought would happen did not. In fact, we spent upwards of $12,000 on agency fees, attorneys fees, and living expenses for the birthmother.... She visited us. [my husband] visited her a couple of times on business trips... "

"We spoke on the phone every other day for four months. She changed her mind when the baby was born. Then she changed her mind again, two weeks later, and wanted us to have the baby. Then she changed her mind again, deciding to keep him, and we've not heard from her since. It was a nightmare. Nobody - not the attorneys or counselors or any of us - saw this coming."

"Miraculously, the week after [the birthmother] changed her mind for the last time, we got a call from another birthmother who had pulled our letter off your service just days before it stopped being listed there. [She] held on to the letter for two months until she was ready to call."

"Her friends told her to forget about us because we weren't listed on AdoptionOnline.com any more. [The Birthmother] was convinced we were the family she wanted. To make a longer story shorter -- we stirred up our courage, knowing we could not afford an expensive adoption, and decided to at least meet [her], who lives [a few hundred] miles away. It was a match made in heaven. "

"Our daughter... was born in May 2000. She is a beautiful, healthy girl. Adoption Online Connection made this adoption possible. It happened in a very different way than we expected, but we could not be happier. Please include us as a "success."

"Thanks for asking".
Sincerely, [Client 326]"

Identifying information such as names and states removed by request.

Received 5/4/00

"We are in heaven - a beautiful girl... We were not picky, knowing it was our second we felt we had not much luck and a long wait - WRONG!!"

"Thanks for everything - I've told MANY people about your service!! God Bless"

Received 4/17/00

"Today we finalized the adoption of our son Bryan Ross. We are very grateful to AdoptionOnline.com, as your Internet service put us in contact with Bryan's birth mother only 60 days after our site was activated and approximately 3 months prior to his birth. The entire adoption process was very positive, and we feel very fortunate to have connected with a wonderful birth mother and ultimately, our beautiful bouncing baby boy. "

"It should be mentioned that we also recommended your service to another couple after we had several viable opportunities arise from our website, and they are now proud parents of a beautiful baby girl from Colorado."

"Thank you AdoptionOnline.com! Words cannot describe the joy adoptive parents feel when their dreams come true. We are grateful for the greatest gift of all - a gift of life - a gift of love. God bless! "

Received 1/03/00

"AdoptionOnline.com really works!!! We now have a 3 month old baby girl living with us. A dream come true!!!

To everyone that is waiting for phone calls or emails--be patient--they will come when you least expect it!!! Thank you AdoptionOnline.com, and we also will thank someone from our support group for suggesting that we go with AdoptionOnline.com. And we also had the most wonderful birthmother!!!!

DON'T LOSE HOPE!!!
Thank you again, and we'll stay in touch!!! "

"Hi,"

"My name is [name witheld], and my husband and I are adoptive parents of two beautiful children which was made possible through the Internet, and specifically Adoption Online. My husband and I registered with your site in early 1997, had identified two perfect birth mothers to work with in less than three months, and became parents for the first time less than three months later, and again six weeks after that. "

"Although there are many negative stories regarding adoption via the Internet, ours is a wonderful success story. If you would like more details about our adoptions for your records or to communicate with other adoptive hopefuls, please don't hesitate to contact me. ..."

"I remember speaking with you in the beginning of our search, and I appreciated your encouragement and compassion in dealing with me over the telephone and sharing your own adoption success story with me. It certainly inspired us, and I hope our story will do the same for others. Thank you for everything! "

"Respectfully, [name witheld]"

Received 8/99

"Hi--
Well, you can increase your adoption count by one. Our son was born [in August] to a birthmother who found us through your site. "

"We'd been "in the book" with a private adoption agency for well over a year with no success, so your site was a godsend for us. Thanks for providing a terrific service at a reasonable price. "

"If you ever want to create a photo-listing of babies adopted through your site, please let me know--I'd be more than happy to provide a picture. In fact, I'll send one now! Best wishes for continuing success"

Received 9/03/99

"As I just posted on the client chat, we have found our new son--or he found us, whichever is correct."

" You can take our letter off your site. Thanks for having such a great site and it keeps getting better as you add features. The client chat is a great one. "

"When we told people we had put our letter on the internet, many were skeptical. I do think there's a segment of the birthmothers out there that will think of the internet as a way to connect with a family. Ours was 23, working in a professional level position, with some college education. Perhaps one of several typical profiles. "

"I was pleased that as lesbians that we didn't get harrassed. I did worry some about that, but it never happened, which may be reassuring to other prospective clients. "

"Thanks again and good luck in the future. "

Received 7/17/99

"Just wanted to let you know that you can add another Successful Adoption to your list! Our son arrived in this world in May. The adoption went smoothly (despite everything the lawyers do to make your life miserable!). The birthmother found us through our Web Site. "

"We truly appreciate your link to the CyberWorld. If and when we decide to try this again, we would certainly avoid the cost and hassle of newspapers and stick with you! "

Received 7/22/99

"We have a wonderful success story from adoptiononline!"

"After five months of using your service - and many inquires from birthmoms during that time - we got a call from an attorney facilitator ... who said she had the perfect birthcouple and that they had gone through all her profiles and still hadn't found the right match. So, our facilitator got on the internet and found us! "

"We were the perfect match and our beautiful healthy daughter was born [in July]. We are forever grateful for your service and highly recommend it to anyone thinking of expanding their adoption search via the web. "

Happy Parents in Washington, D.C.

"Hi!
Your service has been tremendous. We have had so many contacts via our website with adoptiononline. On Saturday we fly ... to meet an incredible birthcouple -- an attorney working with them there could not find a couple in her pool to please them and started looking at adoptiononline and found us!! "

"We expect and hope to be coming home with a little girl by the end of July! "

"Thanks again. We have had many contacts -- too numerous to list -- with this site; at some point I can tally them up for you. It has been the best money we have spent in our adoption search. "

"Thank you again. "

Received 10/20/98

"Hello !
We joined AdoptionOnline.com back in mid-February (1998). Anyway I sent you a note telling you we matched up after 6 weeks, and that the baby was due in July 98. I am sorry it has taken so long to update you, but our dream "really" did come true. "

"We matched up after 6 weeks, then our birth mother was due to give birth 4 months later. I was able to be in the delivery room with her (my husband wasn't able to fly out in time). Being in there and seeing our son being born was the second best gift she could give us. What an incredible sight!! A very emotional ordeal. What a wonderful woman she is and we will forever be thankful that she picked us from AdoptionOnline.com. "

"Three months has now passed since [our son] has been born. We are still the happiest parents ever !!! We stay in contact with his birth mother through letters and pictures. It makes us feel good to have this special relationship with her, and it will be special for our son later in life when he will be able to learn so much about his birth mother from the letters, pictures, and stories we have from her. "

"Again......thank you Adoptiononline.....if it wasn't for YOU then she would not have found US ! "

"We plan to adopt another baby next year, and we will certainly use you again.
Our Love and Thanks, "

"P.S. We go once a month to an adoption support group here in California. There is a big turn over of people and we always tell them about how we used "Adoptiononline" to match up with our birth mother. "

Received 9/24/98

"I wanted to inform you that we had been advertising in the newspapers for 14 months then on May 26th we were posted on adoptiononline.com. THREE days later we had our first contact through e-mail from the birthmother that ended up choosing us. "

"Within the first 2 weeks of being posted, we were communicating to a total of three birthmothers! Our baby daughter was born on August 9th (JUST OVER 2 MONTHS OF ADVERTISING THROUGH YOUR SITE). "

"THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR OFFERING US AND TO MANY OTHER ADOPTIVE FAMILIES THIS FABULOUS OPPORTUNITY. We look forward to posting our Dear Birthmother with you again in the future when we plan to adopt a second child. THANK YOU!!!!! "

"We can't even begin to tell you how ecstatic we are about matching up with a birth mother through your services. "

"We have tried other methods of advertising for about 10 months. After just 6 weeks of signing up online with AdoptionOnline.com we received a phone call from a wonderfully sweet and kind birth mother. We talk with her often and feel that it is a match meant to be. "

Received 4/03/98

"Crank-up that successful adoptions score a notch! We are delighted to announce the arrival of our beautiful son. Our birthmother located us through our internet listing with you and we have had a very positive experience of the adoption process. We only began our search mid-August so this has happened fast! Many thanks to all of you and we hope our story will be an inspiration to your currently waiting families."

Received 10/28/97

"Thank you so much for providing your valuable service! We signed up with you on June 26th and made a connection with a wonderful birthmother within two weeks. After flying to visit her in her city, we agreed to a mutually acceptable adoption plan. "

"Our beautiful infant daughter, was just one month old yesterday! We were there for the birth and consequently were able to experience her first moments of life."

" Thank you for your help. "

"We highly recommend your service to others whenever we have the opportunity to do so. Incidently, we received other serious "contacts" after the initial one! "

Received 8/25/97

"Hello! I apologize for taking so long to share our wonderful news with you. Life is busy with our new son (he is sitting in my lap as I am typing this!) "

"Please pass this letter on to your subscribers as testimony that your service works. My husband and I put our letter to a birthmom on line the first week of January, 1997. "[In mid February]"... we recevied a call from our birthmom, letting us know that she wanted to place her son, due June with us. We met with her mom, dad and her the first weekend in March."

"The meeting went well, and our birthmom confirmed her desire to place her son with us. Over the next months, we communicated daily via E-Mail, and weekly by phone. [In June] we drove ... to await the birth of our son. I helped coach our birthmom through 21 hours of labor, and our boy was born. I was the first person to hold him (and have barely let him go, since!) Thanks to the wonderful, loving personality of our birthmom and her family, his birth was a very positive emotional experience for all of us."

" I have talked with our birthmom a few times since, our son, was born. She goes back to college tomorrow, and is anxious to do well. In our last conversation, she told me that when people ask her if she is happy with her decision, she responds she would do it exactly the same way, had she to do it over again. We ALL feel very fortunate."

" I am very thankful to you and your service for allowing my husband and I to have the family we have wanted for many years. Our friends and family are amazed that [our son] joined our family 5 months after our letter first went on line. Good luck to others like us. "

"It can happen! "

"In February of this year, we place our profile with AdoptionOnline.com in search of a viable opportunity to adopt a newborn child. Your service provided the best and most impressive results. "

"[In July], we were in the delivery room for the birth of our first child !!! "

"Next month, we are expecting the birth of our second child (the ultrasound shows it's a girl!!!). We have been caring for the birthmother since early May and things have been going great. "

" Both of these adoption connections were facilitated through AdoptionOnline.com. The first birthmother had a friend that wrote to us after seeing our profile on AdoptionOnline.com. We wrote back to him and in a short period of time we were talking directly to the birthmother. "

"The second birthmother found us on your service and contacted us through her mother. Soon after, we arranged a personal meeting. From that day on we have been going through the pregnancy together (doctor's visits, ultrasounds, etc.) and expect another successful adoption to be completed soon!!! "

"When we began the adoption process in January of this year, we felt we would be extremely blessed if we had a child by Christmas. Well, it's the middle of summer and it looks like before summer ends, we'll have the perfect family. "

"We used many different methods to market ourselves, but none produced the quality of results that we realized on AdoptionOnline.com. "

" Thank you for providing this service. We would be happy to share more details about our success to other couples that are looking for input and maybe a little hope. "

Received 6/25/97

"...you posted our letter on May 7th. Five days later on May 12th, we received a call from a birthmother who was already several days overdue. [the baby's] birth family was going to go through the phone book and call infertility clinics and decided to try the Internet where they found us instead. ... We could not be happier and we owe it to AdoptionOnline.com for providing this excellent resource."

"Just thought I'd let you know that we are flying tomorrow to meet our birthmom. Her father found our AdoptionOnline page on the Internet, and the birthmom chose us as the future parents of her baby boy. .....We couldn't be happier with her, her family, and her decision, and we look forward to providing a good home for her baby."

" Anyone who is trying to adopt knows that it is hard to be patient while waiting for "the call." I have to admit that I was beginning to think that using the Internet wasn't a good idea. But what seemed like an eternity was actually just 6 weeks - If all goes as planned, we will be parents less than 6 months from the time we made our decision to adopt. "

"We found a Birthmother, or rather a Birthmother found us, thanks to AdoptionOnline.com! 10 days after you put our page online, [she] called us... We talked on the phone a lot over a period of one month, and just met her this week. We feel so lucky... and happy! We want to thank you and wish a very merry Christmas to everybody at AdoptionOnline.com."

"Everybody at IAC (Independent Adoption Center, the agency we are working with to handle our adoption) was impressed with the response we got with your services."

Received 12/02/96

"Our birthmother, and the twins, found us on Adoption Online Connection back in July, just a week or two after our birthmother letter went on-line. The whole process of locating and being matched with a birthmother took about 6 weeks, much less than we had anticipated."

"So, we have a perfect ready-made family with a boy and a girl and a wonderful birthmom. What a wonderful adoption story for our children."

"Thanks for everything and let us know how if there is anything we can do to help you guys."

Received 11/26/96, Adoption #1!

"I am sitting next to my sleeping nine day old son, a direct result of a connection made through AdoptionOnline.com. We were able to be at his birth, and we brought him home on day two of life. Our homestudy was completed only last January, but the only real "action" we got for serious prospects was from AdoptionOnline.com. We can't thank you enough for creating this service. "

"No one can believe we "found a baby on the Internet". Please continue to keep your service reasonably priced to continue to help those of us who aren't "made of money" to be able to find infants without going totally broke. "

"I recommend AdoptionOnline.com every chance I get, and will continue to do so. "

" You also made a birthmom very happy and content in the decision she has made. Her Dad, a computer buff, found our profile on AdoptionOnline.com, right in their living room, and things just progressed from there."

" It still seems so unbelievable. So, chalk up another successful match through your service, "

"Dear AdoptionOnline.com:
You're going to like this. "

"We've been contacted by birthparents who found us through AdoptionOnline.com. They contacted us after we were listed for only a couple of days. We never imagined this would happen so fast. We're all quite thrilled. "

" Thanks very much. What a great service you provide!"

"I was concerned at first about investing in this service. However, AdoptionOnline.com is very user friendly and the response we've received has been surprising. "

"In the last couple of months, we've had more contacts on adoption than in the previous two years that we have been working with an agency."

Received 9/10/96

"To you and AdoptionOnline.com we have to say THANK YOU...THANK YOU...THANK YOU!!! We sat in an agency's "book" for over two years with virtually no contact and since we started with AdoptionOnline.com in late April it has at times felt like it's "raining babies". "

"Best of all, the right connection finally happened. Got to run now (I've got a crib to re-paint), but thanks again for helping us make this match!!"

Received 3/16/96

"We were amazed how quickly this adoption happened, especially since we've been waiting almost 3 years to adopt a child. It was like a miracle, this baby coming to us in this way."

"My name is Alena Kleczka and I was one of the many people who accessed your page looking for adoptive parents. I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was almost 5 months. After much deliberating and discussing with my fiance...we decided adoption was the best way to go. I was only 19 and wanted to finish school and we both work. "

"At first I thought I was being selfish because I wanted to be able to have a future where I could live out my dreams and aspirations. Then I realized that I was also being selfish for the baby growing inside me. I wanted her to have the things I could not give her and the things that I didn't have as a child which were sometimes necessities. anyway, we came to adoptiononline and found a couple that was too good to be true. "

"Not only did I meet wonderful parents for my unborn child, but I made two of the best freinds I have ever had. Noni and Larry were the Canadian couple whose profile was up only three days. I am happy to say that little Sabine is doing great in her new home and both sets of parents are realizing dreams they thought they would never achieve. "

" I felt it was important to let everyone going through this process, be it birthmothers who are scared and don't know what to do, or couples who want nothing more than to have a child...It can be this good. "

"Adoption was a beautiful choice that I am so happy I made. Not only has it answered the prayers of two amazing people whom I love, but it has made my whole life more fulfilling. I would've liked to have been able to keep Sabine, but I know that she is getting just as much love as I could have given her. "

"There is a documentary in the making about our incredible story. there should also be a web page up soon with more information. Until then, if anyone would like to know more about our story, have questions, or just need some reassurance.....you can e-mail me or my fiancé. His address is patrick@spy.net "

"Good Luck to you all..."
Alena Kleczka

"I just wanted to say thank you for the online connection...I liked how you have it broke down into different areas for the birthmothers to choose from...I am currently in the progress of narrowing my choices to the couple I want to raise the baby. I loved this service because I was able to make a decision without pressure or persuasion. This is a great service to adoptive parents and birthparents alike...Thank You! "

"..your company has formed a well organized set of pages with some incredible letters. The letters that I skimmed over sounded so sincere and just what someone like myself wanted to see. Why I am writing, specifically, is to tell you thanks for what you are and have done for families.. .I encourage you to continue to get more & more folks entered and hopefully more women, in my position, can see that as a great chance to get in contact w/ "new" parents. I finally stopped crying, by the time I finished writing this."

"Well I went searching the web again and there was a couples profile up on the adoptiononline page that was perfect. It was like reading about myself and my fiancé. I immediately contacted this couple. so far we have only been speaking for a week but I feel like I have known them for years. Everything is going beautifully for everyone involved. "

" i just wanted to let all the adoptive parents out there who are waiting know that there is a child out there for you. It may take years or in my couples case their profile had been up ONE day. just be upfront and honest because someone out there is looking for someone exactly like you. good luck to you all!"