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DIA: Adoption Profile Book/Photobook

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  • maryoosamaryoosa member

    We used blurb book. I think we have 24 pages.

    It stars with our "Hello" letter (otherwise known as the Dear Birthmother letter)

    Then we have two pages of "stats"  tables with us "At a Glance" and "Our Favorite Things"

    Then a pag

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  • KdgTeacherKdgTeacher member
    We used Shutterfly and are around 20ish pages?  We started with a letter, have a page about each of us written by each other, and then family pages, friend pages, about our jobs, hobbies, etc.
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  • IRRIRR member
    Ours may be a bit text heavy but we also have lots of pictures all in 10 pages.  Never did a book, more like a booklet.  Also not using an agency for matching just lawyers so they have a different take on things.  We also have our website w
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  • Dr.LorettaDr.Loretta member

    At the time, our agency limited them to 2 pages, with a video profile that was 3-5 minutes long.

    There was text on the first page, but no text (other than captions for pictures) on the second page

    The way we set it up was:

    Page 1: Pic

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  • sgb721sgb721 member

    We used mixbook. We also had too much wording and our agency suggested a sentence of two per page discussing a family tradition or our hobbies etc. It also said to try and refer to people by name like 'This is us pumpkin picking with Bobs Mom Sally and

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  • miss071311miss071311 member

    ours is 10 pages. 

    the cover has a picture of us and an intro/hello paragraph. 

    then we have a page on DH by me (about his attitude and how i think he will be a good father),

    a page on me by DH (about my attitude and how

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    imagemarshmallowevening:

    Ok, so it sounds like what they are suggesting is pretty average. It's so hard to write only 1-2 sentences

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  • edaireedaire member
    We used Shutterfly as well. My agency said the same thing. Too many words and too many pictures! The social worker told me that birth parents won't read all of that and it becomes a bit overwhelming to them to see that many words and pictures, so I took i
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