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Hi, I'm new here and hope I'm posting in the right place. Hope someone can help or advise me.
My dh and I have recently started the process of fostering to adopt. We are waiting for medical and police checks to come back.
We have been lead to adopt after many years of trying to conceive and a couple of failed ivfs. Our diagnosis of unexplained infertility means there is always a hope in the back of our minds that we may have birth children.
I am aware that part of the process focuses on if you have resolved your infertility. Before applying to adopt, we both felt in a good place to take on this life changing challenge (last ivf was over a year ago). We have given up charting days of ovulation etc, but not using contraception. We both talked about adoption with much excitement.
We have been married ten years and have a good relationship. Just recently, when discusding adoption, my dh broke down in tears. He says the impact of the infertility seems to be only hitting him now. The whole idea of adoption has brought up all kinds of feelings in him about not having a child of our own. He says he still really wants to adopt though.
I don't know what to do about this. Is he ready for all this? We have now applied to adopt, and I'm worried that we will be rejected for not having 'resolved our infertility' if this comes up during home study. Should I contact our agency and tell them we want to postpone the adoption and go for counselling? Does that look bad for us and will they turn us down if we postpone it? Or would they appreciate our honesty and take us on at a later date?! :grr:
Perhaps someone has been through this or can advise me. Thanks for reading my post x
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You can come to terms with it and still have moments. I think that is part of the grieve process. If your husband says he is ok to move forward then I think it is ok. Warning: adoption is not for the faint of heart so if there are issues they will come to the surface. For us, it was freeing - no doctor appointments, our own pace, we got to answer the questions versus looking some where/one for answers. Unless your gut is screaming that there are more issues, I think it is ok for there to be moments were the way you thought it would happen, didn't.
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