Those of you who have had a successful placement...

Mush-Tastic

How many times was your profile shown before you were successfully matched?

Did you ever go through a failed match prior to your placement?

If you went through an agency, how many families were typically in the waiting pool with you on average? 

Just curious. Thanks!

Art Teacher

We were shown 4 times.  No, we never had a failed match.

About 80 families were waiting.

kgs0505

We were shown over 60 times, one failed match, and 150 families waiting.

Dr.Loretta

No idea. At least 3 or 4, but after that I stopped being diligent about asking

No. We declined to have our profile shown once, but that's it

150. They averaged about 150 placements and about 150 waiting families when we went through the process to adopt DD

maryoosa

I haven't had a placement yet but my agency's shares it's statistics---

 So in their most recent data they had something like 9 failed match's and 55 placements. 

 It looks like they have under 50 families waiting and the average wait is between 8-9 months from homestudy approval.

crene84

Probably not the best to answer this as I advertised independently through parentprofiles and did not work with an agency, but we were contacted by DD's BM 2 days after activating our profile.  At the time there were around 250 profiles on parentprofiles I believe.  No failed matches unless you count the couple we spoke with the first day that wanted to match, but we severed those ties.

lizlemon2

I was foster-to-adopt, but we were shown to 7 or 8 children or sib groups before we were chosen for our sons/we accepted.  Some they picked someone else, some we turned down due to special needs, some we had to be turned down because they needed emergency placement and I work for DCF so I can't do it.

missred75

Our profile book has been sent out 21 times in 9+ months. We're still not matched, but are working with an expectant mother right now who is due in May. Not sure if we will get chosen. We haven't had a failed match, but we did talk with another EM who decided not to go with us. I'm not sure how many other families our agency has. Less than 200, I think.

steph196

We were shown 5 times before we were matched.

No failed matches.

There were about 30 waiting families. 

MagickalNarwhal

I have the exact numbers somewhere but I think we were shown about 12 times in the 6 months we were in the pool.

We didn't have a "failed" match per se, but we met with one expectant mom several times while she was also meeting with another family (we all knew about the other family/meetings), and then she finally decided on the other family instead of us. It felt like a failed match but I guess we never officially matched in the first place!

We never knew how many families were in the pool but there were only about 8 or 10 other families on the website. There were probably another 8 or 10 that chose not to be on the website?

kmkaull2

Mush-Tastic:

How many times was your profile shown before you were successfully matched?

We matched the first time we were shown.

Did you ever go through a failed match prior to your placement?

No

If you went through an agency, how many families were typically in the waiting pool with you on average? 

About 100.

Just curious. Thanks!

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orangecupcake

We were shown one other time before our match.

We had no failed matches.

I think when we were waiting there were about 10-12 couples waiting also.

MayDayGirl

We were shown for dd probably 15 to 20 times, probably 10 to 15 a previous attempt at adopting. Chosen 4 times, which all failed before dd. one failed with previous attempt. ironically her Bm never even saw our profile! To this day!

We had 15 families waiting at a time but only maybe 2 to 5 in the AA program with us.