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Hello, I am Susan, 41 my husband, 36 and I have been married for 15 years and we have a 5 year old daughter who was adopted from Guatemala. We are in the process of adoptiong again, we're doing Domestic adoption this time and sometimes I find myself thinking am I crazy-41 and a newborn coming into our home-heehee. I had a Hysterectomy in April 07 and that plays a factor in my thinking as well as I do not feel at all like I did before the surgery-in ways it has been great, would not change having it and in ways there are new things I am dealing with now. It wil be nice to see how you all feel and how things are going for you.
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I know this is an old thread but I'm new here. I'm 47 and my husband is 39 (soon to be 40) - I have a grownup son from a previous relationship - and we're just starting out. We're going for older child adoption though due to our ages and we don't want to go down the road of international adoption which would be our only way to adopt a newborn as that is very expensive. We would like to older children after much discussion anyway to get them out of foster care and into a loving home.
Thank you, we're at the filling out forms stage so early days but I will be posting regularly. It's going to take at least 8 months to two years but social services are crying out for adoptive parents for older children as they are harder to place simply because they are older than toddler/newborns so that should go in our favour - this is in the UK.
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Congratulations on beginning the adoption journey.
My husband and I never dreamed we would be starting all over again at 46 and 47, but it has been one of the most amazing journeys of our life. Our dd is 20 months old now and we're pursuing another infant adoption. Thanks to our dd, I discovered that my body actually had more energy than I gave it credit for.:clap:
Hi everyone and welcome to all the newcomers here. This is a great place to visit and chat for support and to just have a place to talk...about anything. I come here often just to read and get my reassurance that I am not alone as an older adoptive parent. I am 53 and DH will be 51 next month and we are still waiting for our first and only child together. We are hoping for a girl ages 3-5 from China. DH has a grown daughter from a previous marriage living in England. We never thought we would be still be waiting for our referral now, but we are and we will continue to wait until we cannot wait anymore...for whatever reason. As all of my friends and family think we are absolutely nuts...well....we are.....but we will be really happy nuts! :happydance:Linny....and those of you here....you will always be my inspiration!Jean
2xaround, We are "late bloomers" too - my DH is 44 today, I am 47, and we brought home our newborn daughter in November. We also have a daugher from Guatemala who's 7, and a son from Korea who's 5. I feel like I have plenty of energy, and the desire for more children, so why not?
We may or may not adopt one more time - the jury is still out on that!
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I am 42, DH is 43 and we have an 18 yo bio dd. We are in the paper stage of a DIA and I have to say I'm just as excited this time as I was 18 years ago! Age is just a state of mind and we might not be as energetic as we were the first time around but we are definitely in a much more stable place at our age - good jobs, financial stability, solid group of friends and family in a community that we have been in for a number of years and 20 years of marriage vs. 2 years of still being in the honeymoon stage:) I totally agree with the response from one of the other posters - this is going to be so much better than spending the next 20 years traveling to fill our time!
It's great to have this network of others who are more seasoned in life beginning or restarting their journey of parenthood:love: