why are you trying to adopt?

haileygrishy · July 2012

I'm just curious.

What are your reasons to adopt?

kacelle · July 2012

We want to adopt because it aligns with our spiritual beliefs. Adoption is where my heart is.

Mush-Tastic · July 2012

For medically related reasons and as kacelle mentioned above, it's where our heart is!

I like that!

IRR · July 2012

It seems to be the best way to start our family.

mommytoconnor · July 2012

I am a single woman and haven't met the man of my dreams yet and so I took my life into my own hands and decided to adopt. I have always been drawn to adoption. Sure I could have had a bio child with artificial insemination, but I felt that there were so many kids who need good homes, so I adopted from foster care. It was never a second choice for me and I never felt as if I was settling on adoption. I choose this path. Best decision I ever made. My son's adoption finalization was just barely a year ago. I can't imagine not having him in my life. He is my everything and I couldn't love a bio child more than I love him.

Dr.Loretta · July 2012

We couldn't have bio kids, and we wanted to be parents. Adoption was the path we chose to achieve our goal of parenthood

Rachel Sonnier · July 2012

We have always struggled with infertility, and had gone as far as we were willing to go with our RE this time around. Adoption seemed to be a great way to add to our family, that also aligns with our spiritual beliefs, so we decided to go for it!

jillianmb · July 2012

kacelle:
We want to adopt because it aligns with our spiritual beliefs. Adoption is where my heart is.

This is us too. Timeline pushed up due to IF, but always something we wanted to do.

julandjo · July 2012

We have 2 bio kids and our family is not yet complete. Due to severe pregnancy complications, we are unable to have any more biological children, so adoption it is! Adoption was always a positive option for us in building our family, so it wasn't a difficult transition emotionally.

Robby6 · July 2012

ours was a very complicated story, but basically i worked in the adoption field and a specific child became available for adoption. dh got on board and we applied to become ds parents. it took a year after that for him to be placed with us. i had always wanted to create my family through adoption as my brother was adopted. dh was on board with adopting, but wanted to try for bio kids first and adopt later. that just wasnt our fate.

c&dwaiting4ourmiracle · July 2012

It is the way we are growing our family.

kacelle · July 2012

jillianmb:
kacelle:
We want to adopt because it aligns with our spiritual beliefs. Adoption is where my heart is.
This is us too. Timeline pushed up due to IF, but always something we wanted to do.

If you have any books you'd recommend on adoption from a Christian perspective, I'd love to read them! I've read a few fantastic ones recently and am always looking for more!

jwpbride · July 2012

I am adopted, and always wanted to adopt. God just put it on my heart to do it and everywhere we turned there were signs pointing to it.

amm78 · July 2012

We've wanted to start a family since the day we were married... we have lost two pregnancies and couldn't risk that pain again. When we made the choice to pursue adoption, we felt very at peace and we know it is the way we were meant to grow our family!

MommaT357 · July 2012

kacelle:
We want to adopt because it aligns with our spiritual beliefs. Adoption is where my heart is.

I agree with kacelle.

We have had one bio child and when it came time for #2, we decided to adopt. We want a big family!

HopingforChange · July 2012

We have had two miscarriages and have difficulty conceiving. I most likely will not be able to carry to term without medication before and during the pregnancy, and we don't know if that will work, either (low progesterone and who knows what else). We are still in IF treatment, but we are also on the adoption path, and I do feel in my heart that adoption is the right choice for us.

lady_chance_99 · July 2012

There has been a ton of people adopted in my family (actually almost everyone) but I never intended on adopting myself... apparently God had other plans. Ever heard the saying; "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans?" That is us, to a T.

We took fertility treatments as far as we are comfortable doing, only concieved once in five years of trying and that ended in m/c, and so that led us here. Now that we are on this path it feels like we are coming full circle since my mother was adopted and she actually placed me for adoption but decided to disrupt the adoption after two weeks of placement. (which now that I am on this path is just gut wrenching for me to think about for both the prospective parents and for my mother). But that is how we came to the decision.

MarionB79 · July 2012

DH and I both LOVE children. We've been trying to conceive for 5 years, did numerous fertility treatments and then finally heard God's call for us to adoption. He had to become very obvious for me to get it.

Now I know that this was his plan all along and I am excited about this path. In the beginning open adoption terrified me, now I have to admit that I'll be very sad if our future BM does not want a fully open adoption.

In the end God puts you where he wants you.

lilmufish · July 2012

We struggled with 5 years of infertility, and due to faith reasons we did not want to persue ivf or iui. During that 5 years we took care of my nephew and came to the decision to help other families who were struggling too.

We have the room in our house, the energy and the $$ to support the children, so we decided to foster, and are open to adoption if a kiddo in our home becomes available to adopt.

erinmc1 · July 2012

I always had a feeling that a pregnancy wasn't going to happen and have wanted to adopt since I was a teen. As it turned out, it was hubby who has the non-correctable issue, although we both have primary infertility. But we had decided to adopt before we got the final diagnosis, and then we realized why adoption had always felt like the more positive, hopeful route for us. God put adoption in our hearts and then made us infertile so we'd follow through.

Proud adoptive mom 6.11.09 · July 2012

erinmc1:
I always had a feeling that a pregnancy wasn't going to happen and have wanted to adopt since I was a teen. As it turned out, it was hubby who has the non-correctable issue, although we both have primary infertility. But we had decided to adopt before we got the final diagnosis, and then we realized why adoption had always felt like the more positive, hopeful route for us. God put adoption in our hearts and then made us infertile so we'd follow through.

Proud adoptive mom 6.11.09 · July 2012

erinmc1:
I always had a feeling that a pregnancy wasn't going to happen and have wanted to adopt since I was a teen. As it turned out, it was hubby who has the non-correctable issue, although we both have primary infertility. But we had decided to adopt before we got the final diagnosis, and then we realized why adoption had always felt like the more positive, hopeful route for us. God put adoption in our hearts and then made us infertile so we'd follow through.

donmitch79 · July 2012

I cannot carry a pregnancy after many abdominal surgeries treating a cancer diagnosis. We decided we wanted to adopt prior to insurance denying IVF treatments. We are very blessed to be on the journey of adopting a baby.

ufsandra85 · July 2012

we have so much love to give and want to be parents. having a baby naturally is not very likely for us and after so many miscarriages we are done with watching our babies die. Therefore we want to adopt

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