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I am sooo glad to find this forum. Please tell me where you post on this forum to learn about or be contacted about available situations.
We are an AA couple looking to adopt an AA baby. We are seeking a healthy boy or girl from age new born to 1 years old (a healthy born baby ages 3 mo-6 mo would be beyond perfect.) Our home study was completed in August 2013 and we are financially prepared to move forward.
We also want a situation with no drugs, alcohol, smoking, and/or mental health issues.
We have a consultant agreement with our agency (licensed) to search the country for an opportunity for us or an in-agency situation. Our agency has shown us one situation (within our profile) in six weeks.
Any advise? / Many Thanks
Hello all we are an AA couple from Oklahoma. We are currently in the middle of a home study which should be completed by the first of the year. We have done 5 iui's and 2 IVF's which were all unsuccessful. We are hoping to adopt hopefully at the first part of the year. Hope to meet other couples that are in the process of adopting or who have adopted to grow with us.
Hello everyone! We are an AA couple that adopted 3 years ago. We used a private agency and was matched with a birth mom a couple months after our home study was complete. Our adoption experience was pretty smooth for the most part. Please feel free to ask me any questions, I will try to answer based on our experience. I'm actually back on this site to get some insight on adoption books to read to your child. We haven't done this yet but want to do this very soon. We want him to know he was adopted and very loved by all parties.
I'm not sure if I posted earlier, but I have a placement via fost/adopt. He's two-months-old and has been with us for three weeks now. He's a pure delight. My other three are crazy about him.
The chances of adopting him, I would say 50/50 right now, but I'm just enjoying him for however long he stays, a moment, a season, or a lifetime. I'd forgotten how much laundry such tiny, wonderful smelling people can produce.
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WorldTraveler
We were matched with a 2 week old baby a few months ago. Our adoption worker called on a Monday at 10am. We wet to the hospital at 1pm. We took the baby home two days later. It was surreal to walk in, have someone hand you a baby you've never met before and have everyone start calling you a parent. After a few months though, we can't remember what it was like before the baby came. We're going to TPR in October and hope to finalize in Jan or Feb.
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WorldTraveler
We were matched with a 2 week old baby a few months ago. Our adoption worker called on a Monday at 10am. We wet to the hospital at 1pm. We took the baby home two days later. It was surreal to walk in, have someone hand you a baby you've never met before and have everyone start calling you a parent. After a few months though, we can't remember what it was like before the baby came. We're going to TPR in October and hope to finalize in Jan or Feb.
WorldTraveler
We were matched with a 2 week old baby a few months ago. Our adoption worker called on a Monday at 10am. We wet to the hospital at 1pm. We took the baby home two days later. It was surreal to walk in, have someone hand you a baby you've never met before and have everyone start calling you a parent. After a few months though, we can't remember what it was like before the baby came. We're going to TPR in October and hope to finalize in Jan or Feb.
@WorldTraveler
Glad to know you are still writing. I checked out your blog and you are doing so many things that I would have loved to do had we been blessed with a newborn. I'm watching from afar in admiration.
There are not very many African Americans talking about foster care and adoption on the web. I blog about our journey at Complicated Melodi ([url=http://complicatedmelodi.com]Complicated Melodi | one black woman's journey into marriage, foster care, and beyond[/url]).
A friend and I also do a biweekly podcast called [URL="https://plus.google.com/101903360630378871329/posts"]Add Water and Stir[/URL] where we talk about issues related to foster care, adoption and parenting in communities of color. We are on Youtube, iTunes and Stitcher. We are trying to grow this network so I hope that we can keep in touch.
Mimi
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