Back in 2008 when I wrote at A Child Chosen, I created a list that has since become one of my most popular posts. The Best of the Best: Top 50 Adoption Blogs has continued to circulate the web since I left b5media but some of those blogs have gone by the wayside and some have done so well the writers are publishing books (I should get credit, right?). Because it has been almost two years since that infamous post, we, at GIMH, thought we would update it with our absolute FAVORITE adoption, loss, and infertility blogs.

Grown in My Heart Blogs (excluded from the 101)

4 Crazy Kings
According to Addie
Bump Fairy
A Bushel and a Peck
Can I Get a Do-Over?
Chicago Law Blogger
Gotcha Baby
The International Mom
Kingcade Kitchen
Musings of the Lame
My Everyday Miracles
Our Little Tongginator
Signs of Hope (read more about Carrie in her interview)

With that said…here are our top 101.

We have only chosen sites that have been updated since the first of the year. Grab your badge!

Informational and Adoptee Rights

1. AdopteeRights.net
2. AdopteeRights.org
3. Bastard Nation
4. Ethica
5. FRUA
6. Green Ribbon Campaign for Open Records
7. Guatadopt
8. Love Isn’t Enough
9. Motherlode
10. Nobody is Forgotten
11. OriginsUSA
12. PEAR: Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform
13. Senior Mothers Adoption Activist Coalition
14. Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity
15. Worldwide Orphans Foundation

Domestic Adoption

1. (A) Dad
2. Chasing a Child
3. Letters to a Birthmother
4. Life from Here: Musings From the Edge
5. Peter’s Cross Station
6. Production, Not Reproduction
7. this woman’s work
8. Weebles Wobblog

International Adoption: Asia

1. Adoption Talk
2. American Family
3. Another Ordinary Miracle
4. A Place Called Simplicity
5. Becoming a Family
6. Crazy for Kids
7. Do They Have Salsa in China?
8. Kimchi Mamas
9. La Bicicleta
10. Ni Hao, Y’all
11. No Hands But Ours
12. O Solo Mama
13. So it’s come down to this…
14. Third Mom

International Adoption: South America

1. Another Expresso Please
2. Artificially Sweetened
3. Where Laughter Lives: The Riggs Family Blog
4. Michelle Smiles

International Adoption: Europe

1. The Accidental Mommy
2. American Girls in Moscow
3. Come Undone
4. Life With Bubba, Chicky and Nika
5. Solnichka Babies
6. Uterine Wars

International Adoption: Africa and Caribbean

1. Around the World and Two Kids
2. Ethiopia or Bust
3. Is There Any Mommy Out There?
4. The Livesay [Haiti] Weblog
5. Rage Against the Minivan
6. Rooted in Love
7. welcome to my brain

First Parents

1. Adoption Truth
2. Birth Mother, First Mother Forum
3. The Chronicles of Munchkinland
4. I Should Really be Working
5. Magic Pointe Shoes
6. Motherhood Deleted
7. Not Mother
8. Paragraphein (password protected)
9. Wet Feet
10. Writing My Wrongs

Adoptees

1. 3 Generations of Adoption (adoptee and adoptive mom)
2. Adopt This
3. amy
4. Anti-adoption
5. Baby Love Child
6. The Daily Bastardette
7. Ethnically Incorrect Daughter
8. Faiths and Illusions (adoptee and adoptive mom)
9. Joy’s Division
10. Harlow’s Monkey
11. Heart, Mind, and Seoul (adoptee and adoptive mom)
12. Land of the Not-So-Calm
13. Outlandish Remarks
14. Out of the Fog
15. Ungrateful Little Bastard
16. Shadow Between Two Worlds

Infertility/ Adoption After Infertility

1. A Little Pregnant
2. And I Wasted All that Birth Control
3. Baby Interrupted
4. Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed
5. Stirrup Queens
6. So Close
7. The Egg Drop Post
8. The Fertile Infertile
9. This Cross I Embrace
10. Silent Sorority

Foster Care / Foster Care Adoption

1. Fostering Pride
2. Overwhelmed with Joy
3. Upside-Down Adoption

Loss

1. Crib Chronicles
2. Life after Fertility and Loss
3. Naptime Confessional
4. Parenthood for Me
5. The Spohrs are Multiplying
6. Sweet/Salty
7. To Write Their Names in the Sand

Surrogacy

1. The Good Eggs
2. I’m a Smart One