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Why adopt after having bio children?
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Bio child was a big surprise. see, from the time I was 20 till I was 34 I had blocked tubes, so conception was impossible. At 34 I had a procedure to open tubes, but still did not gt pregnant. Even with fertility pills, and artificial insemination, we could not concieve. After 2 years we gave up, accepting that we would not have children. Imagine my surprise when I discovered I was pregnant three years later! DS was born two months after my fortieth birthday. But it truly was a fluke, and we never concieved again.
So, even though we could accept being childless, we could not accept having an only child. We began the adoption process when he was eight. We had decided when he was three that we would adopt, but we wanted to adopt an older child, yet still keep him as the oldest. Now he has a sister five months younger, and a brother 3 years younger. I asked him once if he had any regrets. It has not been easy, especially since these kids came with a lot of emotional baggage. He said "Mom, I wasn't just an only child, I was a lonely child." he loves his brother and sister to the moon and back.