The Best Gift Adoptions

Nikki and Michael Biers changed our life. Adoption can be intimidating and scary. Nikki helped me with my intro letter for the birth mother. She stayed with me thru a couple of false starts. She sent out my letter to birth mothers, attorneys, agencies etc. I followed her advice to the tee. We signed up in January, gave her the intro letter in May, we had our baby in October.
She has always been there for us. We adopted our second baby a year after our first.
They are ethical, kind and loving. When we were having trouble conceiving our doctor referred us to Best Gift. I later found that three friends had also worked with them.
Our first adoption was in 2007 and the second in 2007. I never found them not to have time for me because of their own family. Thank you Nikki and Michael for all that you do

Adoption can be a very difficult and emotional process. The adoptive parents have been dissapointed by infertility and birth moms are worried about the pregnancy. Often times the birth moms are in difficult situations. Nikki and Michael gave us two miracles, my two sons now 15 and 12. I recently saw Nikki and thought that I’ve never written a review about them. I can’t explain the gratitude we have for them and what they did for us. They are wonderful with the birth parents and with the adoptive parents. I will never be able to thank them enough or thank our birth moms enough.

Go back to 2006… The Biers couple seemed so very nice and on day one I was really excited to have them working for us. We paid $ 5000 (normally $ 6,000) for a «special discount» of some sort (it was about a month before Christmas). Right after that (Jan, I think), the agency «had good news and bad news»… they filed bankruptcy and change the name from Adoption Circle to Best Gift Adoptions, which bothered me a bit but, oh well, times were tough. On another note, I remember noticing right away, the couple was very, very busy with their own adopted family, which was quite large and I felt that they did not have time to do their jobs and outreach was limited. I also remember thinking maybe that special price was so they could buy Christmas presents for their families… it only crossed my mind… of course, I do not know. I was still banking it all on how nice they seemed but the red flags were there.
After quite a while (maybe 5 or 6 months) we were presented with only a few situations and I’m pretty sure they were handed down to them by attorneys and/​or other agencies who cold not place the babies due to high risk or health issues.
The adoption situations presented to us (I’m pretty sure we only had three but I can only remember two): One baby had medical issues because the intestines were growing on the outside of the body. This would require several surgeries. Another situation was a birthmom that I had spoken with on the phone for 2 or 3 days (total of a few hours). The couple were interested in an open adoption. I was pretty excited until I found out the birthfather had just gotten released from PRISON and had recently slashed the birthmom’s tires, among other things. The couple had a volatile relationship. I soon found out the birthfather had 4 or 5 other children from multiple women as well (and was excited to have an open adoption). Yikes! That kind of stopped us in our tracks, especially because we were fortunate enough to have a great relationship with the birthparents of our first adopted child and were hoping to have a similar situation… Or at least, not criminals (for an open adoption). Of course, drugs were another concern. We were certain we did not feel comfortable having an OPEN ADOPTION with this couple.
My husband and I decided not to go with that birthmom due to the unstable and very risky situation. The Biers couple were angry with me saying I led the birthmom on (I only spoke with her only two or three times). This is a LIFE event and that situation did not feel right in the slightest. I did not call the agency for about a month and then realized they had taken our profile/​website link off of their website. They basically DROPPED us from the agency.
In the beginning, when they offered us the «special,» filed bankruptcy, and changed name, was the tip-​off right from the start. Bottom line is… THEY KEPT ALL OF OUR MONEY! THEY DID NOT PRESENT US WITH ANY SITUATIONS THAT WERE NOT HIGH-​RISK IN SOME WAY. PERIOD.
A few years later, I tried to find them online with no luck (were they out of business?). Today I found and old email list and googled their names and, wow, here they are. If they are placing healthy babies with adoptive couples now, that’s great. Perhaps they have learned better outreach to find birthmoms on their own, but back then, they seemed to be in quite a slump and desperate for money.
The couple that seemed so nice were not that nice to us and seriously did not deserve to keep ALL of our money!
PS. Through Kinship Center (
) we found our dream baby (and after only a few days of completing our photo album). We were in the hospital when our daughter was born (I even cut the umbilical cord) and she is now seven years old.
I guess for every door that closes another one does open. I am grateful for how it all tuned out, except the experience and expense with Best Gift Adoptions… Oh well, I guess it’s payback time!
Good luck to all waiting couples, your dream baby will find you!