If some internet searching has led you here, and you are curious about adopting your sweet baby to another loving woman who deeply longs to be a mother, then welcome! Please learn a little about me, Crystal Bailey. 

I've been on a very long journey of desiring motherhood and hoping ANY way will work for me to be able to devote myself to adoring a young soul and raising it in the way of Love. 

I currently call Atlanta, Georgia home. I went to Emory for nursing school, left, and then came back, so I've been here a total of 10 years. I grew up in California, Ohio and Indiana and lived in Tennessee a few years as an adult.  My parents and siblings and nieces and nephews all live in Ohio though so I wouldn't be shocked if I moved there one day because they are all wonderful (I just don't like the cold!). I have extended family in Texas, New Mexico and California. My best friends are in Washington, Tennessee and North Carolina.

I have traveled a lot!! I've been all over the world, but have actually lived in Africa 3 times doing humanitarian work . In 2023 I spent a month on the island of Bali. I also have a camper that I enjoy setting up next to a lake or in a State Park.

I'm not married or partnered, and don't jump into relationships, but am hoping to find a good man to do life with, even if we find each other older. Waiting for marriage to become a mother is not an most important thing to me anymore. I'm 43. I want to be a mother and raise a young soul into a beautiful human, and I am sure all my clients who I have taught how to care for babies would advocate that I'm overqualified for the motherhood position! I'm not sure why my journey of awaiting getting to be a mother has been so long, but it's something very important in my soul, and I'm praying the right path will make it clear. I was a foster mom for a bit, but felt it was hard to have children come and go. With adoption I could shift my whole lifestyle and job around to make motherhood a priority. 

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My mom and dad are still in love after 50 years. My two brothers have beautiful families with amazing, loving wives. Both of my brothers are very smart, but also really good with people so they've done well in their careers. One brother has 4 daughers, and one has 3 sons and one daughter. All my nieces and nephews are great kids, super sweet, sensitive, loving, and considerate. They also think I am the best aunt because I love to bring them gifts and play with them. 

Every summer we take a family vacation together to a lake in Kentucky (Lake Cumberland). Papa (my dad) has a big boat named "The Cookie Cruiser" because we love to eat Chips A'hoy while floating in the water. We all had to try to learn to ski, but I was not very good. My mom is the best at everything, or was! She was amazing at skiing, tennis, racquetball, and now she loves golf and pickleball. My dad is basically a golf-addict now and they live on a golf course. It's pretty though! 

One brother has a big house with a really long table where we have Thanksgiving. It looks like a magazine. Then we go downstairs to the movie theatre room and watch Elf, or make up games, or play tag. We love board games and my nieces are getting good at beating me! 

I was always the most artistic child and loved doing crafts with my mom. Well, I guess my mom is artistic, and her brother is an architect, and my cousins draw and do animation... so there is a lot of artsy stuff in there. I love painting, but pottery has been what I've gotten good at as an adult. 

I love my family. We all get along because we are amicable people that like peace. No drama. We are open minded, care about people, have faith in God, and are all pretty healthy in our bodies and minds. I have so much to be thankful for, and the way to parent with love, grace, and doing lots of crafts was ingrained in me.  I'm sure I'll add more adventure to my parenting style with hiking, travel, and exposure to different cultures and people, but mostly, I loved the peaceful style of parenting in my family and respectful independence and support given to each child to become their own person. 

I am a spiritual person. 

I was raised and continue in the Christian religion.

I see the Oneness of a God in a lot of different people's beliefs and religions, and feel like one day we will see each other in Heaven. Exploring God, spirituality, Faith, and beliefs is an important part of life and something I want to foster, support and create space for a child to develop as they become their own person.  If I help a child feel the love of God, I think he/she'll always return to that abundant Love.  

I have a house in a part of Atlanta called Decatur. It's a very cute home--- 3 bedrooms upstairs and a basement with another room and my work studio. The backyard is fenced and full of flowers and a big garden bed where I grow some summer veggies. My dog loves to frolic an chase chipmonks in the back yard. 

The neighborhood is quiet and residential. I often walk to a nearby lake and don't even bother locking my home. It's very close to some of the cool (and expensive) areas of East Atlanta, East Lake, Oakhurst, City of Decatur. There is a good charter school down the street. 

In 2019 I had the home certified as a foster home and took short term placements of foster babies and kids. During the pandemic I switched to midwifing for homebirth so I use a room in my home to see pregnant clients. Now these rooms are basically empty. I have an office down the road instead and I no longer take foster placements. 

I have plenty of room for a nursery, housing guests like my mom to help, and a room in the basement for an Au Pair (live-in nanny, as opposed to daycare). 

I do think it would be best for me to raise children around my family and my brothers and their children though, so at some point I'd likely move to Ohio. 

In an open adoption, you place your baby with a mother that raises her 100% as her own with all legal rights and financial obligations. You as the birth mother are still 100% the biological mother, and you become a different role that is still important so that your child can know you and you can know them. 

If you're not sure how adoption would work, just know that it's something we do together. I'd hire the lawyer who specializes in all the paperwork that gets done. I can be a part of your pregnancy and birth, or not. I've been a midwife to girls choosing adopt out their baby, and usually the adoptive parent was either at the hospital or in the birth room. The birth mother is always encouraged to have the initial birth moments with the baby, but that can be hard. Sometimes she wants to hold the baby later, but not initially. Everyone supports what the birth mother feels she wants to do. The birth mother can even change her mind and keep the baby and the legal system protects that right, as it should. That would be really hard for me since I've been waiting so long to get to keep a baby (because I deliver them as a midwife but always hand them over!). If this is meant to be, if I am meant to mother and raise your baby, and you are meant to be the birth mother who gets updates and get to have a more "adult" relationship later in life, then I trust the process will be something we can support each other in. 

Since I've already had to complete a home study, background check, counseling approval and parenting classes to be a foster mom, you should feel comfortable that these steps in the adoption process (for me) will be smooth. 

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