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Special Needs Adoption

heedy07heedy07 member
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I have posted here before with questions about our SN son, but I just wanted to take a second to share www.reecesrainbow.org with all of those who do not know about it.  It is a non-profit organization that strives to raise grants for orphaned children with DS and other special needs around the world, so that they might be adopted into a loving family.  I know that many of you have a very full plate right now and do not even want to think about these kids at all, but perhaps others are like me, and feel even more connected and compassionate towards these children because of our own experiences.  There is also a very active Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/officialreecesrainbow/ 

Thank you for reading and I hope that no one is annoyed with me or considers this soliciting, as there is nothing to be sold here.  I just want people to know that not all SN children are blessed enough to be born into a loving family like our's have been.

 

K, born 05/06/10 B, born with a few surprises 07/20/11  

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Re: Special Needs Adoption

  • soontobeahighsoontobeahigh member
    I love Reece's Rainbow!! Im hosting the table again this year at our Buddy Walk. They are a great orginazation and I love what they stand for!
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  • realisticdreamsrealisticdreams member

    I look at Reece's Rainbow ALL THE TIME!!  H & I fell in love with a little boy who has spina bifida and i've actually found the family who is raising the money to adopt him and I can't wait to follow his progress once he's here in the states.

    I only wish it didn't cost SOO much to adopt a SN child internationally.  I also can't imagine how we could manage for H to get the time off work to do the travelling and how to leave the girls for those time periods.  It's stressful for everyone, to say the least.  

    Maybe by the time we are ready to do it, everything will just fall into place. 

    DD1(4):VSD & PFO (Closed!), Prenatal stroke, Mild CP, Delayed pyloric opening/reflux, Brachycephaly & Plagiocephaly, Sacral lipoma, Tethered spinal cord, Compound heterozygous MTHFR, Neurogenic bladder, Urinary retention & dyssynergia, incomplete emptying, enlarged Bladder with Poor Muscle Tone, EDS-Type 3. Mito-Disorder has been mentioned

    DD2(2.5): Late term premie due to PTL, low fluid & IUGR, Reflux, delayed visual maturation, compound heteroygous MTHFR, PFAPA, Bilateral kidney reflux, Transient hypogammaglobulinemia, EDS-Type 3


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  • adge1119adge1119

    agree....i fell in love with a little girl on there.  the problem is the amount and time needed to follow through with an adoption internationally (while already having a special needs child).  i'm not totally counting it out one day though.  all children deserve a loving home! 

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  • heedy07heedy07 member
    I am so glad to see others who have fallen in love with RR and the children they feature!  I never would have guessed that we would have ever considered adoption, let alone special needs international adoption, but we are!  It definitely has to be the right timing for your family, though, so I hope that one day the timing will be perfect and it will work out for your families, too.
    K, born 05/06/10 B, born with a few surprises 07/20/11  

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