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Adoption
How did you find your baby?
DH and I are on parent profiles and have had no real leads yet. We adopted our son (almost 4) through an agency and were convinced that private adoption would be a better way to go, but almost a year of searching and no real bites!! Would love to hear stories of how you found your baby, what connected BM/BF to you, what advice you would give for people who haven't yet found their baby.
Thanks! Karen
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Re: How did you find your baby?
We went through an adoption agency and adopted our daughter through their domestic program. I created a website/blog about us seeking to adopt, but we never had any emails from expectant parents. We sent letters to our family and friends telling them that we were looking to adopt, too - we figured you never know who someone else might know.
Our daughter's birthmom chose us because she felt we were similar to her family (likes, hobbies, etc.) She also liked that I'm a teacher and that I teach art. We seemed to have a lot in common.
I guess my advice would be to just try to get the word out even more if possible that you are interested in adopting.
Good luck to you!
We used Christian Adoption Consultants. They work with many agencies and we were matched really quickly. I can't imagine not using them, we LOVED our consultant. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions about that.
Luke's BM and I had a lot in common. She liked that I was going to stay home and that we already had a son and would like more children. It was a really fast match and we got along really well from the minute we started talking (she called my cell phone while I was in Target of all places!)
Good luck!
Like ArtTeacher, we went through an adoption agency and were matched with our daughter in their domestic program.
DD was already born when the BM chose adoption, and she like a silly picture of DH in our profile. She said it looked like we liked to have fun. We met with her and her mom the next day, and hit it off so well the SW had to cut off our visit so we could get things done that night.
My advice is to be patient and keep your options open. Your baby is out there. We had 2 situations fall through in the 3 weeks leading to our placement.
We did a private IA adoption but was not looking to adopt. We were open to the idea and had talked about it. DH can not have children so when we married he decide that my to kids were enough.
We were contacted by DH's step-mother's sister to adopt her grandchild. DD was taken from her birth mother at birth because of a long history with drugs. We are not looking to adopt again but if another request was made we would consider. DH is having so much fun with DD.