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Hello there! I have much to say about American Adoptions as an adoptive mother of four beautiful and healthy happy children! When we first began our adoption journey 10 years ago, we knew no one who had adopted and knew basically next to nothing about adoption. I quit my job and researched adoption for three months....can you say obsessive?? HA!
After all of my research, I just felt it in my gut to go with American Adoptions. Every time I had spoken with them, they were so helpful and their wait times were unheard of (and continue to get better and better every year....currently less than 9 months). With our first match, we waited 2 months before we got "the call" that a birth mother had chosen us. Exactly two weeks later, our miracle daughter Grace was born in Florida. We were there within just 3 hours of her birth! It was an amazing experience and AA was with us through it all lending nothing but the best of support!
When Grace turned one, we decided to get our paperwork going again since we were convinced it would take much longer the second time, since we already were parents to one.
This time, exactly 6 days later, the phone rang with our match with our second daughter, Sophia. She was born just 6 weeks later, making our daughters just 15 months apart!! It was at this point in my life that I decided to start an adoption support group for people interested in adoption, but still thinking that it was impossible to adopt successfully with a newborn healthy baby infant in the US. After our girls turned 5 and 6 we knew our family wasn't complete. At the time we wanted to be gender specific, which wasn't something AA was offering at the time (they do now)...so we went with a local agency, Bethany. The day we became active was the day we got the call about our beautiful son, Thomas....he was already born and living with foster parents...just three months old! And, only 20 minutes from our house!
Our fourth adoption we went back to American Adoptions...gender didn't matter and we just felt like American Adoptions handled everything the best. We waited for 13 months this time! After all, who would pick a family that already had three healthy kids? Well, our wonderful birth parents of Rocco did! And there he was! Another miracle. THis match was unique in that she picked us when she was just 4 months pregnant, so we had a lot of time to get to know one another. We were there for the ultrasound that showed us the gender and there for the birth! We've also visited once since then!
Overall, American Adoptions is fantastic! You are making a great choice if you choose them for your agency....visit their website at [url=http://www.americanadoptions.com]American Adoptions - A full service adoption agency[/url] You will be so glad you did!!
Best of luck to you!!!
Jenny
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