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Celebrating Family Awaiting Your Child; Naming, Welcoming and Adoption Ceremonies
Baby/Child Welcoming Ceremonies: Whether your new daughter or son is a tiny newborn or an older child, birthed by you or adopted, we can celebrate their life and their entrance into your home and heart with a lovely ceremony. In the case of a foreign adoption, we can weave elements of your culture(s) and the tradition from which your child comes in a way that symbolizes the blending your lives. Entrustment Ceremonies: Appropriate for cases of open adoption, these ceremonies include both the birth mother or family and the adoptive family. They honor the child, the birth mother who is entrusting her child to another, and the adoptive parents who have opened their arms and heart to the child. Such ceremonies poignantly acknowledge a complexity of deep emotions, losses and gains, sadness and joy.
Roberta@SteppingStoneCeremonies.com 718.352.0614 (home) or 347.276.5827 (cell)
Just Home and Love! The words are small |
Ceremonies honoring mothers, families and children are numerous and very varied. When we meet, we'll discuss traditional and current ceremony formats, readings, vows and symbols that you may wish to use in expressing your sentiments and love in your own unique voice. 
Mother Blessing Ceremony: In this ceremony, adapted from the Navajo Blessingway ritual, a group of women gather to honor the woman who is about to become a mother, either by birthing or adopting a child. They come to share their maternal experiences, express their love and friendship and offer a circle of support for her as she prepares for, and then enters, the state of motherhood. In contrast to a baby shower, the focus is on the mother to be, not solely on gifts for the baby to come. 
Birthdays: Let's not forget the birthdays! You can always celebrate your child's life and the joy that he or she brings you by a Happy Birthday celebration. 
