April Fallon is the host of the Adoption Now podcast, and the adoptive mother of four children: AJ, Lily, Vivy, and Maliyah Kate. April had worked in TV and radio for more than a decade when she and her husband, Noah, started their first adoption journey.
Three adoptions later and while working at CBS that she decided to take a leap of faith and start talking about her adoption experience on air. It all started with her own radio program that eventually turned into the international podcast you hear today.
April has such a unique perspective of adoption. She talks about the emotional and financial sacrifices she’s had to make for adoption, and how she has connected with birth mothers. Her story about her daughter Lily’s birth mother is so moving. We don’t get to go into detail about all of her adoption stories, and all of them are incredible; full of suspense and love and redemption, but you can hear all of them in full on Adoption Now.
Whether or not adoption stories make you bawl like a baby like I do, I think you’ll really enjoy hearing April. She even talks about how she doesn’t even try to wear her ‘super mom shirt’ anymore, and just goes with the flow and chaos of having 4 kids. I love all her “Wannabe Confessions,” too!
Adoption has always been part of April’s life. She has loved taking care of children, but she wasn’t sure if she wanted to be a mom. Fast forward a bit, and she now has 4 adopted children, and she’s been through the adoption process seven times.
Two weeks into her process, April got the call about her first adoption.
A big point that drives home with April and her advice for all adoptive parents, is to just take the next step; one step at a time.
April’s adoption of her second child, Lily, didn’t go as smoothly. She talks about how the birth dad had a sudden change of heart while the mom was in labor, the adoption attorney that cheated them out of thousands of dollars, and how an interaction with the birth mom changed her life.
April and her husband, Noah, went through a lot of heartache throughout their process, but still found the strength to move forward with it. I love her answer when I asked her how they found the strength and grace to go through the process again, even after so much pain and loss.
There are unique challenges that come with being an adoptive parent. April is so vulnerable and lets us in on the main thing that can cause many adoptive parents to isolate. There are ways that we can support adoptive families that I never considered before!
April gets questions when she takes her kids out in public. I think people mean well, but don’t really realize what they’re saying. April has a humorous way of dealing with the questions she gets when people see she and her family out in public. Take a listen to hear how she deals with it!
At the end of the day, we’re all moms just trying to figure it out. April’s secret weapon to motherhood is just not even wearing her “super mom” shirt at all. She embraces where she is, and has no issue walking out the door with “stuff all over her shirt.” She even has a hilarious way of dealing with the judgey moms at school. I love it!