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Hello There!
I AM

ANDREA

FROM NEW YORK

Meet Andrea, a warm and thoughtful New Yorker who has spent her career caring for others as a nurse practitioner and is now hoping to become a mother through adoption. She loves creating meaningful traditions, spending time with family and friends, and making the people around her feel supported and at home. Andrea hopes to offer a child a life filled with love, encouragement, stability, laughter, and a strong connection to their birth family.

Andrea, hopeful adoptive mother in New York

I am so grateful to have this opportunity!

I love kids and have always wanted to be a mom. For a while, I felt pressured to get married so I could have a baby, but then I realized that New York is full of fantastic single mothers. Adoption resonates with me because it breaks the mold of the traditional family in a way that is responsive to the unique needs of the child and adults involved. I believe we were put on this earth to take care of each other. Adoption is an excellent reminder that our lives are all interconnected.

ABOUT ANDREA

Overhead view of adult hand holding Child's hand open with paper cut-outs of a family.

JOB

Nurse Practitioner

PLACE OF BIRTH

Cleveland, Ohio

FAV HOBBY

Art and Dance

FAV HOLIDAY

Thanksgiving
I am a nurse and artist living in New York City. For over ten years, I have worked for a homecare nursing agency and now supervise and train other nurse practitioners. My career provides me with the ability to work from home, a flexible schedule and financial security. I love nursing because I get to help people every day, and it affords me the time and money to make art and start a family. I have studied glassblowing in Brooklyn, and painting and sculpture in Midtown Manhattan. After Covid-19 lockdown, I joined a dance team and started making costumes and dancing in parades. I love finding new ways to be creative and spread joy and I can’t wait share all of this with a child.

Visiting Texas

Showing my art

Hiking in New Zealand

MY HOME & COMMUNITY

New York City is an ideal place to raise kids. My home is located between two major city parks, a short walk from friends and family, a French bakery, an independent bookstore, artist designed playgrounds with animal sculptures, and a sledding hill. We can go to the places I loved as a kid, like the planetarium at the Natural History Museum and the Central Park Zoo. We will spend summer weekends at our family’s beach house in Long Island with my brother’s kids, 10-year-old Sammy who loves to read, 7-year-old Henry who loves all sports and foosball, and 5-year-old Amelia who wears sparkly dresses and roars like a tiger. They are really sweet kids and will be great older cousins.

My building

My terrace

Working on a pastel drawing at home

Snowy walk in Riverside Park

MY FAVORITE THINGS

I ENJOY

Andrea
Food
Peaches
Movie
The Wizard of Oz
TV show
This is Us
Candy Bar
Reese's PB Cups
Dessert
Cookies and Cream Ice Cream
Music Artist
Otis Redding
Family Activity
Going to the Beach
Vacation Spot
Mexico
Sport
Skiing
Team
Team USA
Color
Yellow
Board Game
Bananagrams
Children’s Book
Where the Wild Things Are
Animal
Flamingo
Dream Job
Mom

MY FAMILY PHOTOS

CAPTURING MOMENTS

Andrea and Amelia (my niece) climbing rocks in Arizona

Bug costume for the Halloween Parade

Cross-country skiing with my mom

Playing with Cousin Theo

Pre-parade with my dance team

Reading to my friend’s son

Roller skating at Rockaway Beach

Selfie with Henry and Sammy (my nephews) under the boardwalk

Visiting Cousin Laura in New Zealand

My parents, Hinda and Howard

With my brothers, Ben and Rob

With my brothers, Ben and Rob

Family on the boardwalk by our beach house

THANK YOU

FOR CONSIDERING ME

Enjoying ice cream in Upstate NY
Thank you for reading my profile. I can’t fully imagine what you are feeling as you make your adoption plan. While I always wanted to be a parent, I wasn’t ready for a long time and I would have felt afraid in your position. It takes courage to engage in this process. If you select me, I promise I will love and prioritize this child for the rest of my life. We can keep in touch at whatever level feels right for you. You will always be an important part of our family. I intend to raise this child in a healthy and creative environment. We will build sandcastles, plant seeds, read books, and have adventures. Most importantly, this child will be free to discover the world and will be loved and accepted for exactly who they are. Life doesn’t always go as planned, but I believe things can work out in beautiful ways we could never have imagined. I am tearing up a little as I write this, knowing that these words are my first chance to introduce myself to someone who may become an integral part of my future. My wish for you is that you feel healthy, physically and emotionally through this time. Pregnancy can be really hard. Thank you for all you are doing to protect this child as they come into the world. Sending love. Andrea